16. You must not expose the nakedness of your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.
17. You must not expose the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, or her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter; you must not take her as wife to expose her nakedness; they are close relatives—that is wickedness.
18. And you must not take as wife a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her during her life.
19. “ ‘And you must not have sex with a woman to expose her nakedness during her menstrual uncleanness.
20. And you must not have sex with your fellow citizen’s wife, becoming unclean with her.
21. “ ‘And you shall not give any of your offspring in order to sacrifice them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.
22. And you shall not lie with a male as lying with a woman; that is a detestable thing.
23. And you shall not have sexual relations with any animal, becoming unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand before an animal to copulate with it—that is a perversion.
24. “ ‘You must not make yourself unclean in any of these things, because the nations whom I am driving out from your presence were made unclean by all of these.
25. So the land became unclean, and I have brought the punishment of its guilt upon it, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
26. But you (neither the native nor the alien who is dwelling in your midst) shall keep my statutes and my regulations, and you shall not practice any of these detestable things
27. (because the people of the land, who were before you, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean),