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You shall not have sex with your son's daughter, or with your daughter's daughter: for theirs is your own nakedness.

You shall not have sex with your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.

Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations have been defiled which I am casting out from before you;

for the men that were before you in the land have done all these disgusting things, and the land is defiled;

For whoever shall do any of these disgusting things, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

And you shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am Yahweh your God.

And he shall bring his trespass-offering to Yahweh, to the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a trespass-offering.

And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: and the sin which he has sinned shall be forgiven him.

And when you shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then you shall count the fruit thereof as their uncircumcision: three years they shall be as uncircumcised to you; it shall not be eaten.

But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for inauguration to Yahweh.

You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you: I am Yahweh.

The stranger that sojourns with you shall be to you as the home-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt: I am Yahweh your God.

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

For any man that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be on him.

And you shall not have sex with your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

And you shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

And Yahweh said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, None shall defile himself for the dead among his relatives;

except for his kin, that is near to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,