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Leviticus 18

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Leviticus 18 . 1

1 Then the LORD said to Moses,CLeviticus 18:1-5

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2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.CLeviticus 18:1-5TOSKLeviticus 18:2

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3 You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.CLeviticus 18:1-5TOSKLeviticus 18:3

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4 You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.CLeviticus 18:1-5TOSKLeviticus 18:4

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5 Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.IPEzekiel 20:11 Ezekiel 20:13 Ezekiel 20:21 Ezekiel 20:25 Nehemiah 9:29CLeviticus 18:1-5TOSKLeviticus 18:5TTTwo Covenants (Law and Promise)

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6 None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.TOSKLeviticus 18:6

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7 You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.IPAmos 2:7 Amos 2:7TOSKLeviticus 18:7

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8 You must not have sexual relations with your father's wife; it would dishonor your father.IPAmos 2:7TOSKLeviticus 18:8

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9 You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.TOSKLeviticus 18:9

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10 You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.

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11 You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.TOSKLeviticus 18:11

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12 You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.TOSKLeviticus 18:12

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13 You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.TOSKLeviticus 18:13

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14 You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.TOSKLeviticus 18:14

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15 You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.TOSKLeviticus 18:15

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16 You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.TOSKLeviticus 18:16

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17 You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.TOSKLeviticus 18:17

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18 You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.TOSKLeviticus 18:18

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19 You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.TOSKLeviticus 18:19

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20 You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.TOSKLeviticus 18:20

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21 You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.TOSKLeviticus 18:21

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22 You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.TOSKLeviticus 18:22

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23 You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.TOSKLeviticus 18:23

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24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.IPEzekiel 36:12 Ezekiel 36:12-19TOSKLeviticus 18:24

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25 Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.IPEzekiel 36:12-19TOSKLeviticus 18:25

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26 But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.IPEzekiel 36:12-19CLeviticus 18:26-30TOSKLeviticus 18:26

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27 For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.IPEzekiel 36:12-19 Ezra 9:11-12CLeviticus 18:26-30TOSKLeviticus 18:27TTRemnant (Faithful Few Preserved)

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28 So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.IPEzekiel 36:12-19CLeviticus 18:26-30TOSKLeviticus 18:28

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29 Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.IPEzekiel 36:12-19CLeviticus 18:26-30TOSKLeviticus 18:29

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30 You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God."IPEzekiel 36:12-19CLeviticus 18:26-30TOSKLeviticus 18:30

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