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"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, \'I am Yahweh your God. |
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You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes. |
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You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God. |
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You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh. |
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"\'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh. |
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"\'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness. |
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"\'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father\'s wife: it is your father\'s nakedness. |
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"\'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad. |
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"\'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son\'s daughter, or of your daughter\'s daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness. |
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"\'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father\'s wife\'s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister. "\' |
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You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father\'s sister: she is your father\'s near kinswoman. |
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"\'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother\'s sister: for she is your mother\'s near kinswoman. |
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"\'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father\'s brother, you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt. |
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"\'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son\'s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness. |
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"\'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother\'s wife: it is your brother\'s nakedness. |
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"\'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son\'s daughter, or her daughter\'s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness. |
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"\'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive. |
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"\'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. |
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"\'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor\'s wife, and defile yourself with her. |
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"\'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh. |
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"\'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestible. |
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"\'You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion. |
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"\'Don\'t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. |
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The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants. |
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You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you; |
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(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled); |
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that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. |
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"\'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. |
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Therefore you shall keep my charge, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.\'" |
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