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Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: because she is the flesh of thy father.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: because she is thy mother’s flesh.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: because she is thy son’s wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: because it is the nakedness of thy brother.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy wife and her daughter. Thou shalt not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to discover her shame: because they are her flesh, and such copulation is incest.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is an abomination.

Thou shalt not copulate with any beast: neither shalt thou be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime.

Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel. And thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.

And shall bear his iniquity, because he hath defiled the holy thing of the Lord. And that soul shall perish from among his people.

Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord.

If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman.

And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name.

Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because I am the Lord your God.

If any man lie with his daughter in law: let both die, because they have done a heinous crime. Their blood be upon them.

If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother’s shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another’s nakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity.

You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy: and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.

They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,

And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them.

Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord: because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.

Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar: because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.