Keep my statutes and ordinances; a person will live(A) if he does them.(B) I am the Lord.

“You are not to come near(C) any close relative[a] for sexual intercourse;(D) I am the Lord. You are not to violate the intimacy that belongs to your father(E) and mother.[b] She is your mother; you must not have sexual intercourse with her.

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Footnotes

  1. 18:6 Lit any flesh of his flesh
  2. 18:7 Lit Do not uncover your father’s nakedness and your mother’s nakedness

Keep my decrees and laws,(A) for the person who obeys them will live by them.(B) I am the Lord.

“‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the Lord.

“‘Do not dishonor your father(C) by having sexual relations with your mother.(D) She is your mother; do not have relations with her.

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