Leviticus 18
Reading Leviticus chapter 18 in the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, public-domain text from 1899.
Verses 1–10
1 And 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.
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.
4 You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in 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.
6 No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to uncover her 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.
8 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.
9 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother: whether born at home or 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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