Leviticus
Chapter 18
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
2Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
3You 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. You shall not walk in their Rules that are meant to last..
4You shall do my rules and keep my Rules that are meant to last., walking in them. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
5You shall keep my Rules that are meant to last. and my rules. The person who does them shall live by them. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
6No person shall come near any close kin of his body to uncover nakedness. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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She’er besaro is close kin of his body, flesh of his flesh. Gallah ervah is to uncover nakedness. The line prints that action and does not add a second description.
7The nakedness of your father, and the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover. She is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
8The nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover. It is your father’s nakedness.
9The nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, born in the house or born outside, you shall not uncover their nakedness.
10The nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, you shall not uncover their nakedness, because their nakedness is yours.
11The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, born of your father, she is your sister. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
12The nakedness of your father’s sister you shall not uncover. She is your father’s close kin.
13The nakedness of your mother’s sister you shall not uncover, because she is your mother’s close kin.
14The nakedness of your father’s brother you shall not uncover. You shall not come near his wife. She is your aunt.
15The nakedness of your daughter-in-law you shall not uncover. She is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
16The nakedness of your brother’s wife you shall not uncover. It is your brother’s nakedness.
17The nakedness of a woman and of her daughter you shall not uncover. Her son’s daughter and her daughter’s daughter you shall not take, to uncover her nakedness. They are her close kin. It is a shame.
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Zimmah is a shame, a depraved plan. The women are sha’arah, her close kin.
18You shall not take a woman as a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness beside her during her lifetime.
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Litzror is to bind her as a rival, to press one sister against the other while the first is still alive.
19You shall not come near a woman in the menstrual separation of her uncleanness, to uncover her nakedness.
20You shall not give your lying for seed to your fellow’s wife, to become unclean by her.
21You shall not give any of your seed to be passed over to Molech, and you shall not profane the name of your God. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Molech is kept as a name. Leha’avir is to pass them over to Molech. The line does not add a method the Hebrew does not name.
22With a male you shall not lie the lyings of a woman. It is something abhorrent.
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Mishkevei ishah is the lyings of a woman. To’evah is something abhorrent.
23You shall not give your lying to any animal, to become unclean by it. A woman shall not stand before an animal for it to mate with her. It is a mixing.
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Tebel is a mixing, a confusion of kinds. Riv’ah is the animal mating with her.
24Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these, because by all these the nations I am driving out before you made themselves unclean.
25The land became unclean, and I visited its guilt on it, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
26You shall keep my Rules that are meant to last. and my rules, and you shall not do any of these abhorrent things, the native and the A person living in a land that is not their own. who sojourns among you.
27For the people of the land who were before you did all these abhorrent things, and the land became unclean.
28Then the land will not vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29For anyone who does any of these abhorrent things, the persons who do them shall be cut off from the midst of their people.
30You shall keep my charge, so you do not practice any of the abhorrent Rules that are meant to last. that were practiced before you, and you shall not make yourselves unclean by them. I am God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.