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Leviticus 18:11The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:22“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘I am the Lord your God!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:33You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:44You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the Lord your God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:55So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:66“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:77You must not expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:88You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:99You must not have sexual relations with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual relations with either of them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:1010You must not expose the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual relations with them, because they are your own nakedness.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:1111You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not have sexual relations with her.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:1212You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:1313You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:1414You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not approach his wife to have marital relations with her. She is your aunt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:1515You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have sexual relations with her.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:1616You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:1717You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have sexual relations with them. They are closely related to her —it is lewdness.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:1818You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:1919“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:2020You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:2121You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:2222You must not have sexual relations with a male as one has sexual relations with a woman; it is a detestable act.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:2323You must not have sexual relations with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is a perversion.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:2424“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations that I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:2525Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:2626You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:2727for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:2828So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:2929For if anyone does any of these abominations, that person who does them will be cut off from the midst of the people.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Leviticus 18:3030You must obey my charge not to practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
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