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'So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which, if a person follows them, then he will live by them; I am the LORD.

'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is an outrageous sin.

'And you shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a second wife while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.

'Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.

'You shall not sleep with a male as one sleeps with a female; it is an abomination.

'Also you shall not have sexual intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.

'Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired worker are not to remain with you all night until morning.

'You shall not curse a person who is deaf, nor put a stumbling block before a person who is blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the LORD.

'You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people; and you are not to jeopardize the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

'You are to keep My statutes. You shall not cross-breed two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment of two kinds of material mixed together.

'Now if a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free.

'He shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD to the doorway of the tent of meeting, a ram as a guilt offering.

'Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not fall into prostitution, and the land does not become full of outrageous sin.

'When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

'If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

'If there is a man who sleeps with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them must be put to death, they have brought their own deaths upon themselves.

'If there is a man who sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed incest, and have brought their own deaths upon themselves.

'If there is a man who sleeps with a male as those who sleep with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they must be put to death. They have brought their own deaths upon themselves.

'If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is an outrageous sin; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no such outrageous sin in your midst.