{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/leviticus/18","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:19:30.759Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Leviticus","bookSlug":"leviticus","chapter":18,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":17,"nextChapter":19,"totalChapters":27,"totalVerses":30},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Yahweh said to Moses,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'I am Yahweh your God."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"|'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"|'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."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"|'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"|'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."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"|'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."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"|'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"|'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"|'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"|'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"|'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"|'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."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"|'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"|'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"|'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"|'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"|'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"|'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."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"|'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"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;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"|'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Therefore you shall keep my requirements, 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.'|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Leviticus 18 (WEB)","markdown":"[Leviticus 18](https://primebible.com/web/leviticus/18)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/leviticus/18 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}