[[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Leviticus Overview]] [[Leviticus 17]] [[Leviticus 19]] # Leviticus 18 📖 > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Exhortation to Obedience and Life [[#Verse 01.]] The Lord spoke to Moses:  [[#Verse 02.]]' “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘I am the Lord your God!  [[#Verse 03.]] You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.  [[#Verse 04.]] You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the Lord your God.  [[#Verse 05.]] So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord. ### Laws of Sexual Relations [[#Verse 06.]] “‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 07.]] You must not expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her. [[#Verse 08.]] You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.  [[#Verse 09.]] You must not have sexual relations with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual relations with either of them. [[#Verse 10.]] You must not expose the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual relations with them, because they are your own nakedness.  [[#Verse 11.]] You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not have sexual relations with her.  [[#Verse 12.]] You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.  [[#Verse 13.]] You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.  [[#Verse 14.]] You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not approach his wife to have marital relations with her. She is your aunt.  [[#Verse 15.]]' You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have sexual relations with her.  [[#Verse 16.]] You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.  [[#Verse 17.]] You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have sexual relations with them. They are closely related to her—it is lewdness.  [[#Verse 18.]] You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her. [[#Verse 19.]] “‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.  [[#Verse 20.]] You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.  [[#Verse 21.]] You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord!  [[#Verse 22.]] You must not have sexual relations with a male as one has sexual relations with a woman; it is a detestable act.  [[#Verse 23.]] You must not have sexual relations with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is a perversion. ### Warning against the Abominations of the Nations [[#Verse 24.]] “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations that I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.  [[#Verse 25.]] Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants. [[#Verse 26.]] You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,  [[#Verse 27.]] for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.  [[#Verse 28.]] So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you. [[#Verse 29.]] For if anyone does any of these abominations, that person who does them will be cut off from the midst of the people.  [[#Verse 30.]] You must obey my charge not to practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’” ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? Anything Apologetic to point out? %% ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📌 Observation 1 - 📌 Observation 2 - 📌 Observation 3 - (Add more as needed.) %% %% #### Today, I can apply this chapter by: - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? %% ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." (You can link to deeper notes if you want later.) %% ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 coming soon. - 🔗 coming soon. %% Examples: - John 1:1 and Genesis 1 - Romans 5 and Genesis 3 %% ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write 3–6 sentences reflecting on: - How this chapter encourages your faith, - Convicts your heart, - Reveals God's character. Optional format: "In light of this chapter, I am challenged to..." or "I am comforted by..." %% ##### 📂 Internal Links/Personal Notes