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"Don't have sex with your neighbor's wife and violate yourself by her.
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"Don't give any of your children to be burned in sacrifice to the god Molech - an act of sheer blasphemy of your God. I am God.
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"Don't have sex with a man as one does with a woman. That is abhorrent.
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"Don't have sex with an animal and violate yourself by it. A woman must not have sex with an animal. That is perverse.
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"Don't pollute yourself in any of these ways. This is how the nations became polluted, the ones that I am going to drive out of the land before you.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.