Yahweh
said to Moses,
Then
the
LORD
said to Moses,
Translation comparison
Leviticus 18
30 aligned verses; 30 with wording or punctuation differences .
Verse
WEB
World English Bible
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
"
Speak to the children
of
Israel,
and say
to
them ,
'
I am Yahweh
your God.
“
Speak to the Israelites
and tell
them :
I am the
LORD
your God.
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
.
You must
not follow
the practices
of
the
land of Egypt, where you used
to
live,
and you must
not follow
the practices
of
the
land of Canaan, into
which
I am bringing you .
You must
not
walk in their customs
.
You shall
do
my ordinances,
and you
shall
keep my statutes ,
and
walk
in them :
I am Yahweh
your God.
You are
to
practice
My judgments
and keep My statutes by
walking
in them .
I am the
LORD
your God.
You
shall
therefore
keep my statutes and my ordinances;
which
if
a
man does ,
he
shall
live in
them :
I am Yahweh
.
Keep My statutes and My judgments,
for
the
man who
does these
things
will
live by
them .
I am the
LORD
.
"'
None of you shall
approach
anyone
who
are his
close relatives,
to uncover
their
nakedness:
I am Yahweh
.
None of you are to
approach
any
close relative
to have
sexual
relations.
I am the
LORD
.
"'
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
.
You must
not expose
the nakedness of your father by
having
sexual
relations
with
your mother .
She is your mother ;
you must
not have
sexual
relations
with
her.
"'
You shall
not uncover
the
nakedness
of
your father's
wife :
it is
your father's
nakedness
.
You must
not have
sexual
relations
with
your father’s
wife ;
it would
dishonor
your father
.
"'
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
.
You must
not have
sexual
relations
with
your sister, either
your father’s
daughter or
your mother’s
daughter
, whether she
was
born in
the
same
home or elsewhere
.
"'
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
.
You must
not have
sexual
relations
with
your son’s
daughter or your daughter’s
daughter, for that
would
shame
your family
.
"'
You shall
not uncover
the nakedness
of your father's
wife's
daughter
, conceived
by
your father ,
since
she is your sister. "'
You must
not have
sexual
relations
with
the daughter
of your father’s
wife
, born
to
your father ;
she is your sister.
You shall
not uncover
the
nakedness
of
your father's
sister :
she is your father's
near
kinswoman
.
You must
not have
sexual
relations
with
your father’s
sister ;
she is your father’s
close
relative
.
"'
You shall
not uncover
the
nakedness
of
your mother's
sister :
for she is your mother's
near
kinswoman
.
You must
not have
sexual
relations
with
your mother’s
sister ,
for she is your mother’s
close
relative
.
"'
You shall
not uncover
the
nakedness
of
your father's
brother ,
you
shall
not
approach
his wife :
she is your aunt.
You must
not dishonor
your father’s
brother by
approaching
his wife to
have
sexual
relations
with
her;
she is your aunt.
"'
You shall
not uncover
the
nakedness
of
your daughter-in-law :
she is your son's
wife .
You shall
not uncover
her nakedness
.
You must
not have
sexual
relations
with
your daughter-in-law .
She is your son’s
wife ;
you are
not to
have
sexual
relations
with
her.
"'
You shall
not uncover
the
nakedness
of
your brother's
wife :
it
is
your brother's
nakedness
.
You must
not have
sexual
relations
with
your brother’s
wife ;
that
would
shame
your brother
.
"'
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
.
You must
not have
sexual
relations
with
both
a woman and her daughter. You are
not to
marry
her son’s
daughter or her daughter’s
daughter and
have
sexual
relations
with
her .
They are close
relatives;
it is depraved
.
"'
You shall
not take a
wife
to
her
sister ,
to
be
a rival ,
to
uncover
her nakedness,
while her
sister
is yet
alive.
You must
not take your
wife’s
sister as
a rival wife
and
have
sexual
relations
with
her while your
wife
is still
alive.
"'
You shall
not approach a woman to uncover
her nakedness,
as
long
as
she
is
impure
by
her uncleanness
.
You must
not approach a woman to have
sexual
relations
with
her during
her menstrual
period
.
"'
You shall
not lie carnally with your neighbor's
wife ,
and defile yourself with her.
You must
not lie carnally with your neighbor’s
wife and thus
defile yourself with her.
"'
You shall
not give any of your children to sacrifice
to Molech ;
neither
shall
you profane the name of your God :
I am Yahweh
.
You must
not give any of your children to be
sacrificed
to Molech ,
for
you must
not
profane the name of your God .
I am the
LORD
.
"'
You shall
not lie with a man ,
as with a woman .
That is detestible
.
You must
not lie with a man as with a woman ;
that is an
abomination
.
"'
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.
You must
not lie carnally
with any animal ,
thus
defiling
yourself with it; a
woman must
not
stand
before
an animal to mate
with it ;
that
is a perversion.
"'Don't
defile yourselves in
any of these things:
for in
all these the nations which
I am casting
out before you were
defiled.
Do
not
defile yourselves by
any of these practices,
for by
all these things
the nations I am driving
out before you have
defiled themselves
.
The land was
defiled :
therefore
I punished
its iniquity
, and the land vomitted
out her
inhabitants.
Even
the land has
become
defiled ,
so
I am
punishing
it
for
its sin
, and the land will
vomit
out its
inhabitants.
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 ;
But
you are
to
keep My statutes and ordinances, and you
must
not commit
any of these abominations —
neither your
native-born nor the foreigner
who lives among you .
(
for all
these
abominations
have
the men of
the land done,
that
were
before you, and the land became
defiled );
For the men who
were
in
the land before you committed
all
these
abominations
, and the land has
become
defiled .
that
the land not
vomit you out also,
when
you
defile
it,
as it vomited
out the nation
that
was
before you.
So
if
you
defile
the land ,
it
will
vomit you out as it spewed
out the nations
before you.
"'For
whoever
shall
do
any of these abominations ,
even
the
souls
that
do
them
shall
be cut off from among their
people.
Therefore
anyone
who
commits
any of these abominations must
be cut off from among his
people.
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. '"
You must
keep My charge not to
practice any of the
abominable customs that
were practiced before you, so
that you do not defile yourselves by
them .
I am the
LORD
your God. ”
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