{
  "chapterNum": 18,
  "verses": [
    {
      "verseNum": 1,
      "text": "Then the LORD said to Moses,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 2,
      "text": "“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 3,
      "text": "You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 4,
      "text": "You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 5,
      "text": "Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 6,
      "text": "None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 7,
      "text": "You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 8,
      "text": "You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 9,
      "text": "You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 10,
      "text": "You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 11,
      "text": "You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 12,
      "text": "You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 13,
      "text": "You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 14,
      "text": "You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 15,
      "text": "You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 16,
      "text": "You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 17,
      "text": "You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 18,
      "text": "You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 19,
      "text": "You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 20,
      "text": "You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 21,
      "text": "You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed  to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 22,
      "text": "You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 23,
      "text": "You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 24,
      "text": "Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 25,
      "text": "Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 26,
      "text": "But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 27,
      "text": "For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 28,
      "text": "So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 29,
      "text": "Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 30,
      "text": "You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”"
    }
  ]
}