Leviticus 18:24-28

Unlawful Sexual Relations

²⁴ _k "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, _l for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, ²⁵ and the _m land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land _n vomited out its inhabitants. ²⁶ But _o you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the _p native or the stranger who sojourns among you ²⁷ (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), ²⁸ lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

1. Cross References
   Leviticus 18:30
   So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
   Matthew 15:19 - 20
   For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
   Mark 7:21 - 23
   For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery.
   
2. Cross References
   Leviticus 20:23
   And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
   Deuteronomy 18:12
   For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
   
3. Cross References
   Numbers 35:34
   You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.
   Jeremiah 2:7
   And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
   Ezekiel 36:17
   Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.
   
4. Cross References
   Leviticus 20:22
   You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
   
5. Cross References
   Leviticus 18:4 - 5
   You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
   
6. Cross References
   Leviticus 16:29
   And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.