New American Standard Bible

Leviticus 18:16-30 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

16. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.

17. 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 lewdness.

18. You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.

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

20. You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor's wife, to be defiled with her.

21. You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.

22. You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.

23. Also you shall not have 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.

24. 'Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

25. For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.

26. But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you

27. (for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);

28. so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.

29. For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people.

30. Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the Lord your God.'"