19“‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

20“‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

21“‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed^a to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

22“‘Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.

23“‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

24“‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. 25Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. 26But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things, 27for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 28And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

29“‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people. 30Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.’”