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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

and every one who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned a holy thing of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from his people.

And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.

"Say to the people of Israel, Any man of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who gives any of his children to Molech shall be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

I myself will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,

then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in playing the harlot after Molech.

"If a person turns to mediums and wizards, playing the harlot after them, I will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

For every one who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is upon him.

"If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.

If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed incest, their blood is upon them.

"If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity.

If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall bear their sin, they shall die childless.

If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness, they shall be childless.

And the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them that none of them shall defile himself for the dead among his people,

except for his nearest of kin, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself).

He shall not defile himself as a husband among his people and so profane himself.