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1 The LORD spoke to Moses,
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1 The LORD said to Moses,
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2 "Tell the Israelites: I am the LORD your God.
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2 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'I am the LORD your God.
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3 You used to live in Egypt. Don't live the way the Egyptians do. I am bringing you to Canaan. Don't live the way the Canaanites do. Never live by their standards.
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3 You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.
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4 Follow my rules, and live by my standards. I am the LORD your God.
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4 You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God.
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5 Live by my standards, and obey my rules. You will have life through them. I am the LORD.
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5 Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.
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6 "Never have sexual intercourse with anyone related to you by blood. I am the LORD.
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6 " 'No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
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7 "Never have sexual intercourse with your mother. She is your own mother. Never have sexual intercourse with her.
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7 " 'Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.
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8 Never have sexual intercourse with your stepmother. She is related to you through your father.
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8 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.
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9 Never have sexual intercourse with your stepsister, whether she is your father's daughter or your mother's daughter. It makes no difference whether or not she was born in your house.
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9 " 'Do 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.
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10 Never have sexual intercourse with your granddaughter, whether she is your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, because she is related to you.
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10 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you.
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11 Never have sexual intercourse with a daughter of your father and his wife. She is your own sister.
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11 " 'Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
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12 Never have sexual intercourse with your father's sister. She is your paternal aunt.
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12 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative.
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13 Never have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister. She is your maternal aunt.
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13 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.
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14 Never have sexual intercourse with the wife of your father's brother. She, too, is your aunt.
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14 " 'Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.
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15 Never have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife. Never have sexual intercourse with her.
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15 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her.
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16 Never have sexual intercourse with your sister-in-law. She is your brother's wife.
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16 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother.
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17 Never have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter or a woman and her granddaughter. They are related. Doing this is perverted.
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17 " 'Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.
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18 While your wife is living, never marry her sister as a rival wife and have sexual intercourse with her.
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18 " 'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
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19 "Never have sexual intercourse with a woman while she is unclean during her monthly period.
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19 " 'Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.
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20 Never have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife and become unclean with her.
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20 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her.
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21 Never give your children as sacrifices to the god Molech [by burning them alive]. If you do, you are dishonoring the name of your God. I am the LORD.
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21 " 'Do 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.
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22 Never have sexual intercourse with a man as with a woman. It is disgusting.
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22 " 'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
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23 Never have sexual intercourse with any animal and become unclean with it. A woman must never offer herself to an animal for sexual intercourse. It is unnatural.
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23 " 'Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.
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24 "Do not become unclean in any of these ways. By these practices all the nations which I am forcing out of your way have become unclean.
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24 " 'Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.
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25 The land has become unclean. I will punish it for its sins. The land will vomit out those who live in it.
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25 Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
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26 Live by my standards, and obey my rules. Neither you nor any foreigner should ever do any of these disgusting things.
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26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things,
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27 The people of the land who were there before you did all these disgusting things. As a result, the land has become unclean.
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27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.
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28 If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the people who were there before you.
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28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
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29 Whoever does any of these disgusting things must be excluded from the people.
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29 " 'Everyone who does any of these detestable things--such persons must be cut off from their people.
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30 So you must follow my instructions. Don't live by the standards of the people who lived there before you. What they do is disgusting. Never become unclean that way. I am the LORD your God."
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30 Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.' "
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