Unlawful Sexual Relations

Leviticus 18

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: a 'I am the LORD your God. 3 b 'According to 1 the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and c according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their 2 ordinances. 4 d 'You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the LORD your God. 5 'You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.

6 'None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to him, to uncover his nakedness: I am the LORD. 7 'The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8 'The nakedness of your e father's wife you shall not uncover; it is your father's nakedness. 9 f 'The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or elsewhere, their nakedness you shall not uncover. 10 'The nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover; for theirs is your own nakedness. 11 'The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father - she is your sister - you shall not uncover her nakedness. 12 g 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is near of kin to your father. 13 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is near of kin to your mother. 14 h 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother. 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; it is your brother's nakedness. 17 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her i daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near of kin to her. It is wickedness. 18 'Nor shall you take a woman j as a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness while the other is alive.

19 'Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as k long as she is in her l customary impurity. 20 m 'Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your n neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her. 21 'And you shall not let any of your descendants o pass through p the fire to q Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. 22 'You shall not lie with r a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. 23 'Nor shall you mate with any s animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.

24 t 'Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; u for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you. 25 'For v the land is defiled; therefore I w visit 3 the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land x vomits out its inhabitants. 26 y 'You shall therefore 4 keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you 27 '(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled), 28 'lest z the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you. 29 'For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be 5 cut off from among their people. 30 'Therefore you shall keep My 6 ordinance, so a that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: b I am the LORD your God.' "

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 6:7
    I will take you as My people, and I will be you...
    Leviticus 11:44
    For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore...
    Leviticus 11:45
    For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the ...
    Leviticus 19:3
    Every one of you shall revere his mother and hi...
    Ezekiel 20:5
    "Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the ...
    Ezekiel 20:7
    "Then I said to them, 'Each of you, throw away ...
    Ezekiel 20:19
    I am the LORD your God: Walk in My statutes, ke...
    Ezekiel 20:20
    'hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign be...
  2. Cross References
    Joshua 24:14
    Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!
    Ezekiel 20:7
    "Then I said to them, 'Each of you, throw away the abominations which are before his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'
    Ezekiel 20:8
    "But they rebelled against Me and would not obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, 'I will pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.'
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 23:24
    You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.
    Leviticus 18:24 - 30
    Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.
    Leviticus 20:23
    And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them.
    Deuteronomy 12:30
    "take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.'
    Deuteronomy 12:31
    You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  4. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:19
    I am the LORD your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 35:22
    And it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard about it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
  6. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:11
    The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father - she is your sister - you shall not uncover her nakedness.
    Leviticus 20:17
    If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked thing. And they shall be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness. He shall bear his guilt.
    Deuteronomy 27:22
    'Cursed is the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' "And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'
  7. Cross References
    Leviticus 20:19
    You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister nor of your father's sister, for that would uncover his near of kin. They shall bear their guilt.
  8. Cross References
    Leviticus 20:20
    If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
  9. Cross References
    Leviticus 20:14
    If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.
  10. Cross References
    1 Samuel 1:6
    And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the LORD had closed her womb.
    1 Samuel 1:8
    Then Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?
  11. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:6
    If he has not eaten on the mountains, Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, Nor defiled his neighbor's wife, Nor approached a woman during her impurity.
  12. Cross References
    Leviticus 15:24
    And if any man lies with her at all, so that her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
    Leviticus 20:18
    If a man lies with a woman during her sickness and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from their people.
  13. Cross References
    Proverbs 6:25 - 33
    Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, Nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
  14. Cross References
    Exodus 20:14
    You shall not commit adultery.
    Leviticus 20:10
    The man who commits adultery with another man's...
    Matthew 5:27
    "You have heard that it was said to those of ol...
    Matthew 5:28
    But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman ...
    1 Corinthians 6:9
    Do you not know that the unrighteous will not i...
    Hebrews 13:4
    Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed un...
  15. Cross References
    Leviticus 20:2 - 5
    Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: 'Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
    Deuteronomy 12:31
    You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  16. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:3
    But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.
  17. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:7
    Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon.
    1 Kings 11:33
    Because they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.
    Acts 7:43
    You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of your god Remphan, Images which you made to worship; And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
  18. Cross References
    Leviticus 20:13
    If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
    Romans 1:27
    Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
  19. Cross References
    Exodus 22:19
    Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.
    Leviticus 20:15
    If a man mates with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.
    Leviticus 20:16
    If a woman approaches any animal and mates with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood is upon them.
    Deuteronomy 27:21
    'Cursed is the one who lies with any kind of animal.' "And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'
  20. Cross References
    Matthew 15:18 - 20
    But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.
    1 Corinthians 3:17
    If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
  21. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:3
    According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances.
    Leviticus 20:23
    And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them.
    Deuteronomy 18:12
    For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.
  22. Cross References
    Numbers 35:33
    So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.
    Numbers 35:34
    'Therefore do not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.'"
    Ezekiel 36:17
    Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity.
  23. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:21
    For behold, the LORD comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, And will no more cover her slain.
    Jeremiah 5:9
    Shall I not punish them for these things? " says the LORD. "And shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
  24. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:28
    Lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
    Leviticus 20:22
    You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
  25. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:5
    You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.
    Leviticus 18:30
    'Therefore you shall keep My ordinance, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.'"
  26. Cross References
    Jeremiah 9:19
    For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because we have been cast out of our dwellings.'
  27. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:3
    According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances.
    Leviticus 22:9
    They shall therefore keep My ordinance, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby, if they profane it: I the LORD sanctify them.
  28. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:2
    Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'I am the LORD your God.
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