17
You must not have sexual contact with a woman and her daughter. You will not marry her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, thereby uncovering her nakedness. They are her blood relatives; it is shameful.
18
You must not marry your wife's sister as a rival and have sexual contact with her while her sister is alive.
19
You must not approach a woman for sexual contact during her menstrual uncleanness.
20
You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow Israelite, becoming unclean by it.
21
You must not give any of your children to offer them over to Molech so that you do not defile your God's name: I am the LORD.
22
You must not have sexual intercourse with a man as you would with a woman; it is a detestable practice.
23
You will not have sexual relations with any animal, becoming unclean by it. Nor will a woman present herself before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.
Warning against uncleanness and moral pollution
24 Do not make yourselves unclean in any of these ways because that is how the nations that I am throwing out before you became unclean.
25
That is also how the land became unclean, and I held it liable for punishment, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
26
But all of you must keep my rules and my regulations. You must not do any of these detestable things, neither citizen nor immigrant who lives with you (
27
because the people who had the land before you did all of these detestable things and the land became unclean),