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" 'Do not have sex with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sex with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter. They are close relatives on her side. Having sex with them is an evil thing.
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" 'Do not take your wife's sister as another wife and have sex with her. Do not do it while your wife is still living.
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" 'Do not make love to a woman during her monthly period. She is not "clean" at that time.
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" 'Do not have sex with your neighbor's wife. That would make you "unclean."
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" 'Do not hand over any of your children to be sacrificed to the god Molech. That would be treating my name as if it were not holy. I am the LORD your God.
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" 'Do not have sex with a man as you would have sex with a woman. I hate that.
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" 'Do not have sex with an animal. Do not make yourself "unclean" by doing that. A woman must not offer herself to an animal to have sex with it. That is a twisted use of sex.
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" 'Do not make yourselves "unclean" in any of those ways. That is how other nations became "unclean." So I am going to drive those nations out of the land to make room for you.
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Even their land was not "clean." So I punished it because of its sin. The land itself threw out the people who lived there.
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" 'But you must keep my rules and my laws. You must not do any of the things I hate. It does not matter whether you are Israelites or outsiders.
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" 'All of those things were done by the people who lived in the land before you. That is how the land became "unclean."