1: GOD spoke to Moses,
2: "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them: I am GOD, your God.
3: Don't live like the people of Egypt where you used to live, and don't live like the people of Canaan where I'm bringing you. Don't do what they do.
4: Obey my laws and live by my decrees. I am your GOD.
5: Keep my decrees and laws: The person who obeys them lives by them. I am GOD.
6: "Don't have sex with a close relative. I am GOD.
7: "Don't violate your father by having sex with your mother. She is your mother. Don't have sex with her.
8: "Don't have sex with your father's wife. That violates your father.
9: "Don't have sex with your sister, whether she's your father's daughter or your mother's, whether she was born in the same house or elsewhere.
10: "Don't have sex with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter. That would violate your own body.
11: "Don't have sex with the daughter of your father's wife born to your father. She is your sister.
12: "Don't have sex with your father's sister; she is your aunt, closely related to your father.
13: "Don't have sex with your mother's sister; she is your aunt, closely related to your mother.
14: "Don't violate your father's brother, your uncle, by having sex with his wife. She is your aunt.
15: "Don't have sex with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; don't have sex with her.
16: "Don't have sex with your brother's wife; that would violate your brother.
17: "Don't have sex with both a woman and her daughter. And don't have sex with her granddaughters either. They are her close relatives. That is wicked.
18: "Don't marry your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sex with her while your wife is living.
19: "Don't have sex with a woman during the time of her menstrual period when she is unclean.
20: "Don't have sex with your neighbor's wife and violate yourself by her.
21: "Don't give any of your children to be burned in sacrifice to the god Molech--an act of sheer blasphemy of your God. I am GOD.
22: "Don't have sex with a man as one does with a woman. That is abhorrent.
23: "Don't have sex with an animal and violate yourself by it. "A woman must not have sex with an animal. That is perverse.
24: "Don't pollute yourself in any of these ways. This is how the nations became polluted, the ones that I am going to drive out of the land before you.
25: Even the land itself became polluted and I punished it for its iniquities--the land vomited up its inhabitants.
26: You must keep my decrees and laws--natives and foreigners both. You must not do any of these abhorrent things.
27: The people who lived in this land before you arrived did all these things and polluted the land.
28: And if you pollute it, the land will vomit you up just as it vomited up the nations that preceded you.
29: "Those who do any of these abhorrent things will be cut off from their people.
30: Keep to what I tell you; don't engage in any of the abhorrent acts that were practiced before you came. Don't pollute yourselves with them. I am GOD, your God."