Chapter 18

Marriage prohibited in certain degrees of consanguinity and affinity. ℣.18 And diverse carnal and execrable sins committed in other nations, are strictly forbidden.

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   And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

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   thou shalt say to them: I Speak to the children of Israel, and , the Lord your God,

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   according to the custom of the Land of Ægypt, wherein you have dwelt, you shall not do: and according to the manner of the Country of Chanaan, into the which I will bring you, you shall not do, nor walk in their ordinances.

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   You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I, the Lord your God.

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   Keep my laws and judgments, which a man doing, shall live in them. I, the Lord.

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   No man shall approach to her that is next of his blood, to reveal her turpitude. I, the Lord.

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   The turpitude of thy father, and the turpitude of thy mother thou shalt not discover: she is thy mother, thou shalt not reveal her turpitude.

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   The turpitude of thy father's wife thou shalt not discover: for it is the turpitude of thy father:

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   The turpitude of thy sister by father, or by mother, which was born at home or abroad, thou shalt not reveal.

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    The turpitude of thy son's daughter or of thy niece by the daughter, thou shalt not reveal: because it is thy turpitude.

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    The turpitude of thy father's wife's daughter, which she bare to thy father, and is thy sister, thou shalt not reveal.

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    The turpitude of thy father's sister thou shalt not discover: because she is the flesh of thy father.

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    The turpitude of thy mother's sister thou shalt not reveal, because she is of the flesh of thy mother.

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    The turpitude of thy father's brother thou shalt not reveal, neither shall thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by affinity.

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    The turpitude of thy daughter in law thou shalt not reveal, because she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou discover her ignominy.

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    The turpitude of thy brother's wife thou shalt not reveal: because it is the turpitude of thy brother.

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    The turpitude of thy wife, and her daughter thou shalt not reveal. Her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter, thou shalt not take, to reveal her ignominy: because they are her flesh, and such copulation is incest.

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    Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for an harlot, to vex her withal, neither shalt thou reveal her turpitude, while she is yet living.

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    To a woman, having her flowers, thou shalt not approach, neither shalt thou reveal her turpitude.

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    With thy neighbour's wife thou shalt not company, nor be polluted with commixtion of seed.

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    Of thy seed thou shalt not give to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor pollute the name of thy God: I, the Lord.

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    Company not with mankind, as with womankind, because it is abomination.

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    With no beast shalt thou company, neither shalt thou be polluted with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor company with it: because it is an heinous fact.

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    Neither be ye polluted in any of the things wherewith all the nations have been contaminated, which I will cast out before your sight,

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    and wherewith the land is polluted: whose abominations I will visit, that it vomit out the inhabitants thereof.

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    Keep my ordinances and judgments, and do not any of these abominations, as well the same countryman as the stranger that sojourneth with you.

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    For all these execrable things did the inhabitants of the land, that have been before you, and have polluted it.

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    Beware therefore lest in like manner it vomit out you also, when you shall do the like things, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

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    Every soul, that shall do any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people,

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    Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you, and be not polluted in them: I, the Lord your God.