Marriage is prohibited in certain degrees of kindred: Anda all
unnatural lusts.
18:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
18:2. Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am
the Lord your God.
18:3. You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in
which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the
country of Chanaan, into which I will bring you. Nor shall you walk in
their ordinances.
18:4. You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and
shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
18:5. Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live
in them, I am the Lord.
18:6. No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to
uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.
18:7. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the
nakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her
nakedness.
18:8. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s wife: for it
is the nakedness of thy father.
18:9. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or
by mother: whether born at home or abroad.
18:10. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or
thy daughter’s daughter: because it is thy own nakedness.
18:11. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s wife’s
daughter, whom she bore to thy father: and who is thy sister.
18:12. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister:
because she is the flesh of thy father.
18:13. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister:
because she is thy mother’s flesh.
18:14. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother:
neither shalt thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by
affinity.
18:15. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law:
because she is thy son’s wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.
18:16. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife:
because it is the nakedness of thy brother.
18:17. 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.
18:18. Thou shalt not take thy wife’s sister for a harlot, to rival
her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet
living.
18:19. Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither
shalt thou uncover her nakedness.
18:20. Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour’s wife: nor be defiled
with mingling of seed.
18:21. Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the
idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.
18:22. Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is
an abomination.
18:23. 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.
Because it is a heinous crime.... In Hebrew, this word heinous crime is
expressed by the word confusion, signifying the shamefulness and
baseness of this abominable sin.
18:24. Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all
the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,
18:25. And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I
will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.
18:26. Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments: and do not any of these
abominations. Neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that
sojourneth among you.
18:27. For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have
done, that were before you, and have defiled it.
18:28. Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you
do the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
18:29. Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall
perish from the midst of his people.
18:30. Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done,
that have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord
your God.