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1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God.
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Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: I am the Lord your God.
3 You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the country of Chanaan, into which I will bring you. Nor shall you walk in their ordinances.
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You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.
4 You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
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My ordinances you shall observe and my statutes you shall keep, following them: I am the Lord your God.
5 Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.
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You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the Lord.
6 No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.
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None of you shall approach anyone near of kin to uncover nakedness: I am the Lord.
7 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
8 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is the nakedness of your father.
9 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother: whether born at home or abroad.
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born abroad.
10 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or thy daughter’s daughter: because it is thy own nakedness.
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.
11 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, whom she bore to thy father: and who is thy sister.
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father, since she is your sister.
12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: because she is the flesh of thy father.
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's flesh.
13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: because she is thy mother’s flesh.
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's flesh.
14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother: neither shalt thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by affinity.
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: because she is thy son’s wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: because it is the nakedness of thy brother.
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.
17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy wife and her daughter. Thou shalt not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to discover her shame: because they are her flesh, and such copulation is incest.
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are your flesh; it is depravity.
18 Thou shalt not take thy wife’s sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.
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And you shall not take a woman as a rival to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.
19 Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.
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You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
20 Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour’s wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.
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You shall not have sexual relations with your kinsman's wife, and defile yourself with her.
21 Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.
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You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is an abomination.
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You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
23 Thou shalt not copulate with any beast: neither shalt thou be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime.
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You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it: it is perversion.
24 Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,
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Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.
25 And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.
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Thus the land became defiled; and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
26 Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments: and do not any of these abominations. Neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.
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But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and commit none of these abominations, either the citizen or the alien who resides among you
27 For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.
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(for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled);
28 Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
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otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29 Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people.
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For whoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from their people.
30 Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.
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So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you, and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.
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