Leviticus 18

1 locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen dicens

Then the LORD said to Moses,

2 loquere filiis Israhel et dices ad eos ego Dominus Deus vester

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.

3 iuxta consuetudinem terrae Aegypti in qua habitastis non facietis et iuxta morem regionis Chanaan ad quam ego introducturus sum vos non agetis nec in legitimis eorum ambulabitis

You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.

4 facietis iudicia mea et praecepta servabitis et ambulabitis in eis ego Dominus Deus vester

You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.

5 custodite leges meas atque iudicia quae faciens homo vivet in eis ego Dominus

Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

6 omnis homo ad proximam sanguinis sui non accedet ut revelet turpitudinem eius ego Dominus

None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

7 turpitudinem patris et turpitudinem matris tuae non discoperies mater tua est non revelabis turpitudinem eius

You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

8 turpitudinem uxoris patris tui non discoperies turpitudo enim patris tui est

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.

9 turpitudinem sororis tuae ex patre sive ex matre quae domi vel foris genita est non revelabis

You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

10 turpitudinem filiae filii tui vel neptis ex filia non revelabis quia turpitudo tua est

You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.

11 turpitudinem filiae uxoris patris tui quam peperit patri tuo et est soror tua non revelabis

You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

12 turpitudinem sororis patris tui non discoperies quia caro est patris tui

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

13 turpitudinem sororis matris tuae non revelabis eo quod caro sit matris tuae

You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.

14 turpitudinem patrui tui non revelabis nec accedes ad uxorem eius quae tibi adfinitate coniungitur

You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.

15 turpitudinem nurus tuae non revelabis quia uxor filii tui est nec discoperies ignominiam eius

You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

16 turpitudinem uxoris fratris tui non revelabis quia turpitudo fratris tui est

You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.

17 turpitudinem uxoris tuae et filiae eius non revelabis filiam filii eius et filiam filiae illius non sumes ut reveles ignominiam eius quia caro illius sunt et talis coitus incestus est

You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

18 sororem uxoris tuae in pelicatum illius non accipies nec revelabis turpitudinem eius adhuc illa vivente

You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

19 ad mulierem quae patitur menstrua non accedes nec revelabis foeditatem eius

You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.

20 cum uxore proximi tui non coibis nec seminis commixtione maculaberis

You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.

21 de semine tuo non dabis ut consecretur idolo Moloch nec pollues nomen Dei tui ego Dominus

You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

22 cum masculo non commisceberis coitu femineo quia abominatio est

You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.

23 cum omni pecore non coibis nec maculaberis cum eo mulier non subcumbet iumento nec miscebitur ei quia scelus est

You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.

24 ne polluamini in omnibus his quibus contaminatae sunt universae gentes quas ego eiciam ante conspectum vestrum

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

25 et quibus polluta est terra cuius ego scelera visitabo ut evomat habitatores suos

Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

26 custodite legitima mea atque iudicia et non faciat ex omnibus abominationibus istis tam indigena quam colonus qui peregrinatur apud vos

But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.

27 omnes enim execrationes istas fecerunt accolae terrae qui fuerunt ante vos et polluerunt eam

For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

28 cavete ergo ne et vos similiter evomat cum paria feceritis sicut evomuit gentem quae fuit ante vos

So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

29 omnis anima quae fecerit de abominationibus his quippiam peribit de medio populi sui

Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.

30 custodite mandata mea nolite facere quae fecerunt hii qui fuerunt ante vos et ne polluamini in eis ego Dominus Deus vester

You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”