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\v 1 Yahweh also said to Moses,
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\v 2 "Speak to the Israelite people and tell them that I, Yahweh, say this, 'I am Yahweh, your God.
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\v 3 After seeing how the Egyptians behaved, among whom you also lived, you must not do what they did. And you must not behave as the Canaanites live, into whose land I am taking you. You must avoid their practices.
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\v 4 You must obey all of my laws; you must do everything that I, Yahweh your God, am commanding you.
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\v 5 If you obey all my decrees and laws, you will continue to remain alive for a long time. I, Yahweh, am promising you this. Here are some of my laws.
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\v 6 Do not sleep with any of your close relatives. It is I, Yahweh, who am commanding that.
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\v 7 Do not disgrace your father by sleeping with your mother. Do not disgrace your mother in this manner.
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\v 8 Do not sleep with any of your father's other wives, because that would disgrace your father.
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\v 9 Do not sleep with either your full sister or half-sister. It does not matter whether she was born and raised in your house or somewhere else.
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\v 10 Do not sleep with your granddaughter, because that would disgrace you.
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\v 11 Do not sleep with your half-sister, one whose father is also your father; she is your sister.
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\v 12 Do not sleep with your father's sister, because she is your father's close relative.
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\v 13 Do not sleep with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.
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\v 14 Do not disgrace your father's brother by sleeping with his wife, because she is your aunt.
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\v 15 Do not sleep with your daughter-in-law, because she is your son's wife.
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\v 16 Do not sleep with your brother's wife, because that would disgrace your brother.
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\v 17 Do not sleep with the daughter or granddaughter of any woman with whom you have previously slept. They are her close relatives. Sleeping with any of them would be an evil thing to do.
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\v 18 While your wife is still living, do not marry your wife's sister and sleep with her.
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\v 19 Do not sleep with any woman while she is having her menstrual period.
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\v 20 Do not defile yourself by sleeping with someone else's wife.
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\v 21 Do not give any of your children to be burned to be as a sacrifice to the god Molech, because that would dishonor me, Yahweh, your God.
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\v 22 No man should sleep with another man. That is detestable.
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\v 23 No one, man or woman, should defile himself by sleeping with an animal. That is a perverse action.
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\v 24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because doing these things is how the people of the nations became unacceptable to me, the people groups that I will drive out as you advance into the land that I am giving you.
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\v 25 They even caused the land to become defiled, so I punished them for their sins, and it was as though the land had vomited out the people who lived there.
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\v 26 But you must all obey my laws and decrees. This includes both you people who were born here and the foreigners who live among you.
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\v 27 As for all those detestable things, before you came, the people who lived in this land did them, and they defiled the land.
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\v 28 So if you also defile the land, I will get rid of you as I got rid of the people of those nations that were here before you came.
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\v 29 You must not allow people who do any of those detestable things to associate with you, who are my people.
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\v 30 Obey all that I command you to do, and do not defile yourselves by following any of the disgusting habits of the people who were there before you came. I, Yahweh your God, am the one who is commanding these things.' "
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