6 "You are not to come near  * 18:6 Gn 20:4 any close relative  * 18:6 Lit any flesh of his flesh for sexual intercourse;  * 18:6 1Tm 4:3 I am the Lord. 7 You are not to violate the intimacy that belongs to your father  * 18:7 Ezk 22:10 and mother.  * 18:7 Lit Do not uncover your father’s nakedness and your mother’s nakedness She is your mother; you must not have sexual intercourse with her. 8 You are not to have sex with your father’s wife;  * 18:8 Gn 35:22; 49:4; Lv 20:11; 2Sm 16:21–22; Am 2:7; 1Co 5:1 she is your father’s family.  * 18:8 Lv 20:119 You are not to have sexual intercourse with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s,  * 18:9 Lv 20:17; Dt 27:22; 2Sm 13:11–14; Ezk 22:11 whether born at home or born elsewhere. You are not to have sex with her. 10 You are not to have sexual intercourse with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for they are your family.  * 18:10 Lit because they are your nakedness11 You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter, who is adopted by  * 18:11 Lit daughter, a relative of your father; she is your sister. 12 You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s sister;  * 18:12 Ex 6:20 she is your father’s close relative. 13 You are not to have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister,  * 18:13 Lv 20:19 for she is your mother’s close relative. 14 You are not to violate the intimacy that belongs to  * 18:14 Lit Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual intercourse; she is your aunt.  * 18:14 Lv 20:2015 You are not to have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law.  * 18:15 Gn 38:16; Lv 20:12; Ezk 22:11 She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sex with her. 16 You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s family.  * 18:16 Lv 20:21; Dt 25:5–10; Mt 14:3–4; Mk 6:1817 You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter.  * 18:17 Lv 20:14; Dt 27:23; Am 2:7 You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.  * 18:17 Lv 19:2918 You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.  * 18:18 Gn 29:21–28

19 "You are not to approach  * 18:19 Gn 20:4 a woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.  * 18:19 Lv 15:19–24; 20:18; Ezk 18:620 You are not to have sexual intercourse with  * 18:20 Lit to give your emission of semen to your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.  * 18:20 Ex 20:14; Lv 20:10; Nm 5:11–31; Dt 22:22; 1Co 6:9; Heb 13:4

21 "You are not to sacrifice any of your children in the fire  * 18:21 Lit to make any of your children pass through the fire to Molech.  * 18:21 Lv 20:2–5; Dt 18:10; 1Kg 11:7; 2Kg 23:10; Jr 32:35; Ac 7:43 Do not profane the name  * 18:21 Ex 20:7; Lv 20:3; Jn 10:25 of your God; I am the Lord. 22 You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman;  * 18:22 Gn 19:5; Lv 20:13; Dt 23:18; Rm 1:26–27; 1Co 6:9–11; Gl 5:21; 1Tm 1:10; Rv 21:8 it is detestable.  * 18:22 Gn 46:3423 You are not to have sexual intercourse with  * 18:23 Lit to give your emission to any animal, defiling yourself with it; a woman is not to present herself to an animal to mate with it;  * 18:23 Ex 22:19 it is a perversion.