Leviticus Chapter 18

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Leviticus chapter eighteen. The Eternal One spoke to Moses. Go
talk with the Israelites. Tell them, I am the eternal One,
your God. You must not act as you saw the
Egyptians do when you lived in Egypt, nor should you
act as they do in Canaan, where I am taking you.
Do not follow their practices from here on out. You
will live by my commands and honor my decrees, and

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live your lives according to them alone. I am the
eternal One, your God. Stay devoted to my decrees and commands.
The person who observes them will live by them. I
am the eternal One. You must not have sexual relations
with anyone closely related to you. I am the eternal One.
This includes your father and your mother. You are to
honor her as your mother and not have sexual relations

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with her. You are to not have sexual relations with
your father's wife. You might as well violate your father.
You are not to have sexual relations with your sister,
whether she is your father's daughter or your mother's daughter,
regardless of where she has lived with your family or elsewhere.
Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or
your daughter's daughter, since they are your own flesh. And blood.

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Such an act would bring shame to you. You are
not to have sexual relations with your stepsister, the daughter
of your father and his wife, for she is still
your sister. Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister,
your aunt. She is your father's flesh and blood. Do
not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, your aunt.
She is your mother's flesh and blood. You are not

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to dishonor your father's brother, your uncle by approaching his
wife for sexual relations. She is your aunt. You are
not to have sexual relations with your daughter in law.
She is your son's wife. You are not to have
sexual relations with your brother's wife, your sister in law.
You might as well violate your brother. You are not
to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter,
her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter. They are blood relations.

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It would be a disgusting act. As long as your
wife is living, do not marry her sister or have
sexual relations with her. This would them make them rivals.
You are not to have sexual relations with a woman
while she is in her menstrual impurity. Do not have
sexual relations with your neighbour's wife. Such act defiles you both.
Do not sacrifice your children to Molik. Such an unholy

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sacrifice desecrates your God's name. I am your God, the
eternal One. You are not to have sexual relations with
a man in the same way you do with a woman.
Such a thing as detestable. Do not engage in a
sexual act with an animal. This includes men as well
as women. Such behavior defiles you and perverts the proper
order of things. Do not defile yourselves by engaging in

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any of these perverse things. I am driving out all
these other nations ahead of you, and because they have
corrupted themselves with disgusting acts like these. The entire land
of Canaan is so impure that I will punish the
land until it vomits out those who dwell upon it.
I want you to keep my decrees and judgments. No
Israelite and no outsider living among you should commit any

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of these detectable acts. The people who are in Canaan
before you committed when they desecrated the land. Do not
desecrate the land, or the land will vomit you from
it has done to those who were there before you.
All those who commit these disgusting acts will be cut
off from their community. Therefore, observe my laws, and do
not commit any of these disgusting acts which have been

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committed by the people who lived in the land before you.
If you observe them, you will not defile yourselves like
they did. I am the eternal One, your God,