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Passage Lookup: Leviticus 18
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Leviticus 18:1
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Unlawful Sexual Relations
The Lord said to Moses,Leviticus 18:2
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"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘I am the Lord your God.(a)
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Leviticus 18:3
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You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.(b)
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Leviticus 18:4
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You must obey my laws(c) and be careful to follow my decrees.(d) I am the Lord your God.(e)
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Leviticus 18:5
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Keep my decrees and laws,(f) for the person who obeys them will live by them.(g) I am the Lord .
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Leviticus 18:6
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"‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the Lord .
Leviticus 18:7
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"‘Do not dishonor your father(h) by having sexual relations with your mother.(i) She is your mother; do not have relations with her.
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Leviticus 18:8
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife;(j) that would dishonor your father.(k)
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Leviticus 18:9
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with your sister,(l) either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.(m)
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Leviticus 18:10
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you.
Leviticus 18:11
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
Leviticus 18:12
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister;(n) she is your father's close relative.
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Leviticus 18:13
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister,(o) because she is your mother's close relative.
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Leviticus 18:14
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"‘Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.(p)
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Leviticus 18:15
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law.(q) She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her.(r)
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Leviticus 18:16
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife;(s) that would dishonor your brother.
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Leviticus 18:17
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter.(t) Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.
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Leviticus 18:18
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"‘Do not take your wife's sister(u) as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
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Leviticus 18:19
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"‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness(v) of her monthly period.(w)
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Leviticus 18:20
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife(x) and defile yourself with her.
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Leviticus 18:21
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"‘Do not give any of your children(y) to be sacrificed to Molek,(z) for you must not profane the name of your God.(aa) I am the Lord .(ab)
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Leviticus 18:22
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman;(ac) that is detestable.(ad)
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Leviticus 18:23
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"‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.(ae)
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Leviticus 18:24
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"‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you(af) became defiled.(ag)
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Leviticus 18:25
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Even the land was defiled;(ah) so I punished it for its sin,(ai) and the land vomited out its inhabitants.(aj)
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Leviticus 18:26
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But you must keep my decrees and my laws.(ak) The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,
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Leviticus 18:27
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for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.
Leviticus 18:28
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And if you defile the land,(al) it will vomit you out(am) as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
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Leviticus 18:29
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"‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people.
Leviticus 18:30
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Keep my requirements(an) and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.(ao)'"
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