Leviticus 18 — Novel English Bible

1 Yahawah () dabar (word / matter) to Mashah (Moses),

2 “Dabar (word / matter) to the banay (children) of Yashar-Al (Israel), and amar (spoke) to them, ‘I am Yahawah () your Alahayam ().

3 You shall not ishah (make) as they maishah (do) in the aratz (Earth/land) of Matzarayam (Matzarayam / Egypt), where you lived: and you shall not ishah (make) as they ishah (make) in the aratz (Earth/land) of Kanain (Canaan), where I am bawaa (bring) you; neither shall you yalak (walk) in their chaqah (statutes).

4 You shall ishah (make) my mashapat (ordinances), and you shall shamar (keep/guard) my chaqah (statutes), and yalak (walk) in them: I am Yahawah () your Alahayam ().

5 You shall therefore shamar (keep/guard) my chaqah (statutes) and my mashapat (ordinances); which if a adam (man) ishah (make), he shall chayay (life) in them: I am Yahawah ().

6 “‘None of you shall qarab (come close) anyone who are his close relatives, to galah (uncover) their irawah (nakedness): I am Yahawah ().

7 “‘You shall not galah (uncover) the irawah (nakedness) of your ab (father), nor the irawah (nakedness) of your am (mother): she is your am (mother). You shall not galah (uncover) her irawah (nakedness).

8 “‘You shall not galah (uncover) the irawah (nakedness) of your ab (father) ayashah (woman / wife): it is your ab (father) irawah (nakedness).

9 “‘You shall not galah (uncover) the irawah (nakedness) of your achawath (sister), the banath (daughter) of your ab (father), or the banath (daughter) of your am (mother), whether mawaladath (kindred / native land) at bayath (house), or mawaladath (kindred / native land) chawatz (abroad).

10 “‘You shall not galah (uncover) the irawah (nakedness) of your ban (son) banath (daughter), or of your banath (daughter) banath (daughter), even their irawah (nakedness): for theirs is your own irawah (nakedness).

11 “‘You shall not galah (uncover) the irawah (nakedness) of your ab (father) ayashah (woman / wife) banath (daughter), conceived by your ab (father), since she is your achawath (sister).

12 “‘You shall not galah (uncover) the irawah (nakedness) of your ab (father) achawath (sister): she is your ab (father) shaar (near) kinswoman.

13 “‘You shall not galah (uncover) the irawah (nakedness) of your am (mother) achawath (sister): for she is your am (mother) shaar (near) kinswoman.

14 “‘You shall not galah (uncover) the irawah (nakedness) of your ab (father) ach (brother/kinsman), you shall not qarab (come close) his ayashah (woman / wife): she is your dawadah (aunt).

15 “‘You shall not galah (uncover) the irawah (nakedness) of your daughter-in-law: she is your ban (son) ayashah (woman / wife). You shall not galah (uncover) her irawah (nakedness).

16 “‘You shall not galah (uncover) the irawah (nakedness) of your ach (brother/kinsman) ayashah (woman / wife): it is your ach (brother/kinsman) irawah (nakedness).

17 “‘You shall not galah (uncover) the irawah (nakedness) of a ayashah (woman / wife) and her banath (daughter). You shall not laqach (take / seize) her ban (son) banath (daughter), or her banath (daughter) banath (daughter), to galah (uncover) her irawah (nakedness); they are shaarah (near) kinswomen: it is zamah (wickedness).

18 “‘You shall not laqach (take / seize) a ayashah (woman / wife) to her achawath (sister), to be a rival, to galah (uncover) her irawah (nakedness), while her sister is yet chay (life).

19 “‘You shall not qarab (come close) a ayashah (woman / wife) to galah (uncover) her irawah (nakedness), as long as she is impure by her tamaah (uncleanness).

20 “‘You shall not shakabath (lie) zarai (carnally) with your neighbor's ayashah (woman / wife), and tamaa (defile) yourself with her.

21 “‘You shall not give any of your zarai (children) to ibar (pass over/through) to Malak (Molech); neither shall you chalal (profane) the sham (name) of your Alahayam (): I am Yahawah ().

22 “‘You shall not shakab (lie) with a zakar (remember), as with a ayashah (woman / wife). That is detestable.

23 “‘You shall not shakabath (lie) with any animal to tamaa (defile) yourself with it; neither shall any ayashah (woman / wife) give herself to an animal, to rabai (fourth) down with it: it is a perversion.

24 “‘Don't tamaa (defile) yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the gawayam (heathen) which I am shalach (send) out panayam (face) you were tamaa (defiled).

25 The aratz (Earth/land) was tamaa (defiled): therefore I paqad (visit) its iwan (guilt/iniquity), and the aratz (Earth/land) qawaa (vomited) out her yashab (inhabit/dwell).

26 You therefore shall shamar (keep/guard) my chaqah (statutes) and my mashapat (ordinances), and shall not ishah (make) any of these thawaibath (abominations); neither the native-born, nor the gar (sojourner / stranger / foreigner) who lives as a foreigner thawak (midst) you;

27 (For all these thawaibath (abominations) have the ishaw (men) of the aratz (Earth/land) ishah (make), that were panayam (face) you, and the aratz (Earth/land) became tamaa (defiled));

28 That the aratz (Earth/land) not qawaa (vomit) you out also, when you tamaa (defile) it, as it qawaa (vomited) out the gaway (heathen / nation) that panayam (face) before you.

29 “‘For whoever shall ishah (make) any of these thawaibawath (abominations), even the napashawath (souls) that ishah (make) them shall be karath (cut) off from qarab (among / near) their im (nation / people).

30 Therefore you shall shamar (keep/guard) my requirements, that you ishah (make) not practice any of these thawaibah (abominable) chaqawath (customs), which were practiced panayam (face) you, and that you do not tamaa (defile) yourselves with them: I am Yahawah () your Alahayam ().’”