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title: Leviticus 18
slug: kjv/leviticus-18
createdAt: 2024-08-05T19:56:16.091Z
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**1 **And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, **2 **Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God. **3 **After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. **4 **Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I *am* the LORD your God. **5 **Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I *am* the LORD.

**6 **None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover *their* nakedness: I *am* the LORD. **7 **The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she *is* thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. **8 **The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it *is* thy father's nakedness. **9 **The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, *whether she be* born at home, or born abroad, *even* their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. **10 **The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, *even* their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs *is* thine own nakedness. **11 **The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she *is* thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. **12 **Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she *is* thy father's near kinswoman. **13 **Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she *is* thy mother's near kinswoman. **14 **Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she *is* thine aunt. **15 **Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she *is* thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. **16 **Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it *is* thy brother's nakedness. **17 **Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; *for* they *are* her near kinswomen: it *is* wickedness. **18 **Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex *her*, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life *time*.

**19 **Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. **20 **Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. **21 **And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through *the fire* to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I *am* the LORD. **22 **Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it *is* abomination. **23 **Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it *is* confusion.

**24 **Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: **25 **And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. **26 **Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit *any* of these abominations; *neither* any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: **27 **(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which *were* before you, and the land is defiled;) **28 **That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that *were* before you. **29 **For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit *them* shall be cut off from among their people. **30 **Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that *ye* commit not *any one* of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I *am* the LORD your God.