New English Translation

Leviticus 18:21-27 New English Translation (NET)

21. You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord!

22. You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act.

23. You must not have sexual intercourse with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it; it is a perversion.

24. “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

25. Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

26. You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,

27. for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.