Leviticus 18

vayedabber Adonai el-mosheh lemor

GOD spoke to Moses, saying:

dabber el-bene yisra'el ve'amarta alehem ani Adonai elohekhem

Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: I the ETERNAL am your God.

kema'aseh erets-mitsrayim asher yeshavtem-bah lo ta'asu ukhema'aseh erets-kena'an asher ani mevi etkhem shammah lo ta'asu uvekhuqqotehem lo telekhu

You shall not copy the practices of the land of Egypt where you dwelt, or of the land of Canaan to which I am taking you; nor shall you follow their laws.

et-mishpatay ta'asu ve'et-khuqqotay tishmeru lalekhet bahem ani Adonai elohekhem

My rules alone shall you observe, and faithfully follow My laws: I the ETERNAL am your God.

ushemartem et-khuqqotay ve'et-mishpatay asher ya'aseh otam ha'adam vakhay bahem ani Adonai

You shall keep My laws and My rules, by the pursuit of which humans shall live: I am GOD.

ish ish el-kol-she'er besaro lo tiqrevu legallot ervah ani Adonai

Not even one of you shall come near anyone of his own flesh to uncover nakedness: I am GOD.

ervat avikha ve'ervat immekha lo tegalleh immekha hiv lo tegalleh ervatah

Your father’s nakedness, that is, the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover; she is your mother—you shall not uncover her nakedness.

ervat eshet-avikha lo tegalleh ervat avikha hiv

Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is the nakedness of your father.

ervat akhotekha vat-avikha o vat-immekha moledet bayit o moledet khuts lo tegalleh ervatan

The nakedness of your sister—your father’s daughter or your mother’s, whether born into the household or outside—do not uncover their nakedness.

ervat bat-binkha o vat-bittekha lo tegalleh ervatan ki ervatekha hennah

The nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter—do not uncover their nakedness; for their nakedness is yours.

ervat bat-eshet avikha moledet avikha akhotekha hiv lo tegalleh ervatah

The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, who was born into your father’s household—she is your sister; do not uncover her nakedness.

ervat akhot-avikha lo tegalleh she'er avikha hiv

Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.

ervat akhot-immekha lo tegalleh ki-she'er immekha hiv

Do not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister; for she is your mother’s flesh.

ervat akhi-avikha lo tegalleh el-ishto lo tiqrav dodatekha hiv

Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother: do not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

ervat kallatekha lo tegalleh eshet binkha hiv lo tegalleh ervatah

Do not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

ervat eshet-akhikha lo tegalleh ervat akhikha hiv

Do not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is the nakedness of your brother.

ervat isha uvittah lo tegalleh et-bat-benah ve'et-bat-bittah lo tiqqakh legallot ervatah sha'arah hennah zimmah hiv

Do not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; nor shall you take to wife her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and uncover her nakedness: they are kindred; it is depravity.

ve'isha el-akhotah lo tiqqakh litsror legallot ervatah aleha bekhayyeha

Do not take to wife a woman as a rival to her sister and uncover her nakedness in the other’s lifetime.

ve'el-isha beniddat tumatah lo tiqrav legallot ervatah

Do not come near a woman during her menstrual period of impurity to uncover her nakedness.

ve'el-eshet amitekha lo-titten shekhovtekha lezara letomah-vah

Do not have carnal relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

umizzarakha lo-titten leha'avir lammolekh velo tekhallel et-shem elohekha ani Adonai

Do not allow any of your offspring to be offered up to Molech, and do not profane the name of your God: I am the ETERNAL.

ve'et-zakhar lo tishkav mishkeve isha to'evah hiv

Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abhorrence.

uvekhol-behemah lo-titten shekhovtekha letomah-vah ve'isha lo-ta'amod lifne vehemah lerivah tevel hu

Do not have carnal relations with any animal and defile yourself thereby. Likewise, a woman shall not lend herself to an animal to mate with it; it is perversion.

al-tittamme'u bekhol-elleh ki vekhol-elleh nitme'u haggoyim asher-ani meshalleakh mippenekhem

Do not defile yourselves in any of those ways, for it is by such that the nations that I am casting out before you defiled themselves.

vattitma ha'arets va'efqod avonah aleha vattaqi ha'arets et-yosheveha

Thus the land became defiled; and I called it to account for its iniquity, and the land spewed out its inhabitants.

ushemartem attem et-khuqqotay ve'et-mishpatay velo ta'asu mikkol hatto'evot ha'elleh ha'ezrakh vehagger haggar betokhekhem

But you must keep My laws and My rules, and you must not do any of those abhorrent things, neither the citizen nor the stranger who resides among you;

ki et-kol-hatto'evot ha'el asu anshe-ha'arets asher lifnekhem vattitma ha'arets

for all those abhorrent things were done by the people who were in the land before you, and the land became defiled.

velo-taqi ha'arets etkhem betamma'akhem otah ka'asher qa'ah et-haggoy asher lifnekhem

So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nation that came before you.

ki kol-asher ya'aseh mikkol hatto'evot ha'elleh venikhretu hannefashot ha'osot miqqerev ammam

All who do any of those abhorrent things—such persons shall be cut off from among their people.

ushemartem et-mishmarti levilti asot mekhuqqot hatto'evot asher na'asu lifnekhem velo tittamme'u bahem ani Adonai elohekhem

You shall keep My charge not to engage in any of the abhorrent practices that were carried on before you, and you shall not defile yourselves through them: I the ETERNAL am your God.