Leviticus 18:14-24

14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; she is your brother's nakedness.

17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are your near kinswomen; it is wickedness.

18 And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is yet alive.

19 "You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

20 And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

21 You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

23 And you shall not lie with any beast and defile yourself with it, neither shall any woman give herself to a beast to lie with it: it is perversion.

24 "Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am casting out before you defiled themselves;

Leviticus 18:14-24 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 18

In this chapter the Israelites are directed in general not to imitate the customs and practices of the Egyptians and Canaanites, but to keep the ordinances, statutes, and judgments of the Lord, Le 18:1-5; and they are instructed particularly to avoid incestuous marriages, Le 18:6-18; carnal copulation with a menstruous woman, Le 18:19; adultery, Le 18:20; letting any of their seed pass through the fire to Molech, Le 18:21; sodomy, Le 18:22; and bestiality, Le 18:23; and they are deterred from these things by observing to them the pollution and destruction which they brought on the inhabitants of Canaan, and would bring the same on them should they commit them, Le 18:24-30.