(GWT)
Leviticus
18
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3
You used to live in Egypt. Don't live the way the Egyptians do. I am bringing you to Canaan. Don't live the way the Canaanites do. Never live by their standards.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
4
Follow my rules, and live by my standards. I am the LORD your God.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
5
Live by my standards, and obey my rules. You will have life through them. I am the LORD.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
6
"Never have sexual intercourse with anyone related to you by blood. I am the LORD.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
7
"Never have sexual intercourse with your mother. She is your own mother. Never have sexual intercourse with her.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
8
Never have sexual intercourse with your stepmother. She is related to you through your father.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
9
Never have sexual intercourse with your stepsister, whether she is your father's daughter or your mother's daughter. It makes no difference whether or not she was born in your house.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
10
Never have sexual intercourse with your granddaughter, whether she is your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, because she is related to you.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
11
Never have sexual intercourse with a daughter of your father and his wife. She is your own sister.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
12
Never have sexual intercourse with your father's sister. She is your paternal aunt.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
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13
Never have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister. She is your maternal aunt.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
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14
Never have sexual intercourse with the wife of your father's brother. She, too, is your aunt.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
15
Never have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife. Never have sexual intercourse with her.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
16
Never have sexual intercourse with your sister-in-law. She is your brother's wife.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
17
Never have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter or a woman and her granddaughter. They are related. Doing this is perverted.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
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18
While your wife is living, never marry her sister as a rival wife and have sexual intercourse with her.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
19
"Never have sexual intercourse with a woman while she is unclean during her monthly period.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
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20
Never have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife and become unclean with her.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
21
Never give your children as sacrifices to the god Molech [by burning them alive]. If you do, you are dishonoring the name of your God. I am the LORD.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
22
Never have sexual intercourse with a man as with a woman. It is disgusting.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
23
Never have sexual intercourse with any animal and become unclean with it. A woman must never offer herself to an animal for sexual intercourse. It is unnatural.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
24
"Do not become unclean in any of these ways. By these practices all the nations which I am forcing out of your way have become unclean.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
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25
The land has become unclean. I will punish it for its sins. The land will vomit out those who live in it.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
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26
Live by my standards, and obey my rules. Neither you nor any foreigner should ever do any of these disgusting things.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
27
The people of the land who were there before you did all these disgusting things. As a result, the land has become unclean.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
28
If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the people who were there before you.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
29
Whoever does any of these disgusting things must be excluded from the people.
(GWT)
Leviticus
18
:
30
So you must follow my instructions. Don't live by the standards of the people who lived there before you. What they do is disgusting. Never become unclean that way. I am the LORD your God."