## Onkelos Leviticus Chapter 18

###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:1
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:1)

וּמַלִּיל יְיָ עִם משֶׁה לְמֵימָר:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:2
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:2)

מַלֵּל עִם בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְתֵימַר לְהוֹן אֲנָא יְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Speak to Bnei Yisroel and say to them I am Adonoy, your God.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:3
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:3)

כְּעוֹבָדֵי **עַמָּא** דְאַרְעָא דְמִצְרַיִם דִּי יְתֶבְתּוּן בַּהּ לָא תַעְבְּדוּן וּכְעוֹבָדֵי **עַמָּא** דְאַרְעָא דִכְנַעַן דִּי אֲנָא מָעֵל יָתְכוֹן תַּמָּן לָא תַעְבְּדוּן וּבְנִימוֹסֵיהוֹן לָא תְהָכוּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
After the practice of the [**people of the**] Land of Egypt in which you have lived, you shall not do, and the practice of the [**people of the**] Land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you, you shall not do and you shall not follow their statutes [customs].


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:4
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:4)

יָת דִּינַי תַּעְבְּדוּן וְיָת קְיָמַי תִּטְּרוּן לְהַלָּכָא בְּהוֹן אֲנָא יְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You shall fulfill My laws and you shall keep My statutes to follow them, I am Adonoy, your God.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:5
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:5)

וְתִטְּרוּן יָת קְיָמַי וְיָת דִּינַי דִּי יַעְבֵּד יָתְהוֹן אֲנָשָׁא וְיֵחֵי בְהוֹן **לְחַיֵּי עָלְמָא** אֲנָא יְיָ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You shall keep My statutes and My laws which if a man obeys he shall live through them [**in the World to Come**]; I am Adonoy.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:6
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:6)

גְּבַר גְּבַר לְכָל קָרִיב בִּסְרֵיהּ לָא תִקְרְבוּן לְגַלָּאָה עֶרְיָא אֲנָא יְיָ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Each and every person—to any of his close kin—You shall not approach to uncover [their] nakedness, I am Adonoy.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:7
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:7)

עֶרְיַת אֲבוּךְ וְעֶרְיַת אִמָּךְ לָא תְגַלֵּי אִמָּךְ הִיא לָא תְגַלֵּי עֶרְיְתַהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The nakedness of your father and the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:8
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:8)

עֶרְיַת אִתַּת אָבוּךְ לָא תְגַלֵּי עֶרְיַת אֲבוּךְ הִיא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The nakedness of your fathers wife you shall not uncover; it is your fathers nakedness.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:9
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:9)

עֶרְיַת אֲחָתָךְ בַּת אֲבוּךְ אוֹ בַת אִמָּךְ דִּילִידָא **מִן אֲבוּךְ מִן אִתַּת אָחֳרִי** אוֹ **מִן אִמָּךְ לִגְבַר אָחֳרָן** לָא תְגַלֵּי עֶרְיַתְהֶן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The nakedness of your sister [whether she is] your fathers daughter or your mothers daughter; whether she is born in the house [**to your father from another woman**], or she is born outside [**to your mother from another man**], you shall not uncover their nakedness.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:10
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:10)

עֶרְיַת בַּת בְּרָךְ אוֹ בַת בְּרַתָּךְ לָא תְגַלֵּי עֶרְיַתְהֵן אֲרֵי עֶרְיְתָךְ אִנּוּן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The nakedness of your sons daughter or your daughters daughter; you shall not uncover their nakedness, for their nakedness is your own.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:11
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:11)

עֶרְיַת בַּת אִתַּת אֲבוּךְ דִּילִידָא מִן אֲבוּךְ אֲחָתָךְ הִיא לָא תְגַלֵּי עֶרְיְתַהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The nakedness of the daughter of your fathers wife who is born to your father; she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:12
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:12)

עֶרְיַת אֲחַת אֲבוּךְ לָא תְגַלֵּי קָרִיבַת אֲבוּךְ הִיא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The nakedness of your fathers sister you shall not uncover; she is your fathers kin.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:13
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:13)

עֶרְיַת אֲחַת אִמָּךְ לָא תְגַלֵּי אֲרֵי קָרִיבַת אִמָּךְ הִיא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The nakedness of your mothers sister you shall not uncover, for she is your mothers kin.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:14
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:14)

עֶרְיַת אַח אֲבוּךְ לָא תְגַלֵּי לְאִתְּתֵיהּ לָא תִקְרַב **אִתַּת אַח אֲבוּךְ** הִיא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The nakedness of your fathers brother you shall not uncover. You shall not approach his wife, she is your aunt [**the wife of your father’s brother**].


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:15
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:15)

עֶרְיַת כַּלְּתָךְ לָא תְגַלֵּי אִתַּת בְּרָךְ הִיא לָא תְגַלֵּי עֶרְיְתַהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The nakedness of your daughter-in-law you shall not uncover; she is your sons wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:16
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:16)

עֶרְיַת אִתַּת אֲחוּךְ לָא תְגַלֵּי עֶרְיַת אֲחוּךְ הִיא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The nakedness of your brothers wife you shall not uncover; it is your brothers nakedness.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:17
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:17)

עֶרְיַת אִתְּתָא וּבְרַתַּהּ לָא תְגַלֵּי יָת בַּת בְּרַהּ וְיָת בַּת בְּרַתַּהּ לָא תִסַּב לְגַלָּאָה עֶרְיְתַהּ קָרִיבָן אִנּוּן **עֵצַת חִטְאִין** הִיא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The nakedness of a woman and her daughter you shall not uncover. The daughter of her son and the daughter of her daughter you shall not take to uncover her nakedness, they are kin; it is lewdness [**a sinful plan**].


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:18
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:18)

וְאִתְּתָא עִם אֲחָתַהּ לָא תִסָּב לְעָקָאָה לְגַלָּאָה עֶרְיְתַהּ עֲלַהּ בְּחַיָּיהָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You shall not take a woman and her sister to vex [her] to uncover her nakedness with the other, in her lifetime.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:19
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:19)

וּלְאִתְּתָא **בְּרִחוּק סוֹבְתַהּ** לָא תִקְרַב לְגַלָּאָה עֶרְיְתַהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
To a woman while in her menstrual impurity [**the state of her impure ‘separation’**], you shall not approach to uncover her nakedness.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:20
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:20)

וּבְאִתַּת חַבְרָךְ לָא תִתֵּן שְׁכֻבְתָּךְ לְזַרְעָא לְאִסְתָּאָבָא בַהּ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
With your friends wife you shall not lie carnally, to defile yourself through her.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:21
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:21)

וּמִבְּנָיךְ לָא תִתֵּן לְאַעְבָּרָא לְמוֹלֶךְ וְלָא תַחֵל יָת שְׁמָא דֶאֱלָהָךְ אֲנָא יְיָ:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You shall not hand over any of your children to be passed through [the worship of] *Molech* and you shall not defile the Name of your God, I am Adonoy.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:22
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:22)

וְעִם דְּכוּרָא לָא תִשְׁכּוּב מִשְׁכְּבֵי אִתְּתָא תּוֹעֶבְתָּא הִיא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You shall not lie with a male [conjugally] as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:23
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:23)

וּבְכָל בְּעִירָא לָא תִתֵּן שְׁכֻבְתָּךְ לְאִסְתָּאָבָא בַהּ וְאִתְּתָא לָא תְקוּם קֳדָם בְּעִירָא **לְמִשְׁלַט בַּהּ** תִּבְלָא הוּא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Together with any animal you shall not lie [conjugally] to defile yourself with it. A woman shall not stand before an animal to copulate with it [**control her**]; it is defilement.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:24
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:24)

לָא תִסְתַּאֲבוּן בְּכָל אִלֵּין אֲרֵי בְכָל אִלֵּין אִסְתָּאָבוּ עַמְמַיָּא דִּי אֲנָא **מַגְלֵי** מִן קֳדָמֵיכוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
Do not defile yourselves in any one of these [ways], for in all of these [ways] the nations have become defiled [those] that I am driving away [**exiling**] from before you.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:25
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:25)

וְאִסְתָּאָבַת אַרְעָא וְאַסְעָרִית חוֹבַהּ עֲלַהּ וְרוֹקֵינַת אַרְעָא יָת יָתְבָהָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
The land became defiled and I judged its iniquities upon it and the land expelled its inhabitants.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:26
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:26)

וְתִטְּרוּן אַתּוּן יָת קְיָמַי וְיָת דִּינַי וְלָא תַעְבְּדוּן מִכֹּל תּוֹעֶבְתָּא הָאִלֵּין **יַצִּיבָא** וְגִיּוֹרָא **דְּיִתְגַּיְּרוּן** בֵּינֵיכוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You shall adhere to My statutes and to My laws and not do any of these abominations [both] the native born [**settled one**] and the proselyte who resides [**converts**] among you.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:27
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:27)

אֲרֵי יָת כָּל תּוֹעֶבְתָּא הָאִלֵּין עֲבָדוּ אֱנָשֵׁי אַרְעָא דִּי קֳדָמֵיכוֹן וְאִסְתָּאָבַת אַרְעָא:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For all of these abominations were done by the people of the land who came before you and the land became defiled.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:28
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:28)

וְלָא תְרוֹקֵן אַרְעָא יָתְכוֹן בְּסָאֳבֵיכוֹן יָתַהּ כְּמָא דְרוֹקֵינַת יָת **עַמְמַיָּא** דִּי קֳדָמֵיכוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
[So that] the land not expel you when you defile it as it expelled the nation [**nations**] before you.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:29
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:29)

אֲרֵי כָּל דִּי יַעְבֵּד מִכֹּל תּוֹעֶבְתָּא הָאִלֵּין וְיִשְׁתֵּיצוּן נַפְשָׁתָא דִיַעְבְּדוּן מִגּוֹ עַמְּהוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
For anyone who will do any of these abominations, their souls shall be cut off, those who do these things, from among their people.


###### Onkelos Leviticus 18:30
[Onkelos Leviticus 18:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Onkelos%20Leviticus/r/18:30)

וְתִטְּרוּן יָת **מַטְּרַת מֵימְרִי** בְּדִיל דְּלָא לְמֶעְבַּד מִנִּימוֹסֵי תוֹעֶבְתָּא דְּאִתְעֲבָדָא קֳדָמֵיכוֹן וְלָא תִסְתַּאֲבוּן בְּהוֹן אֲנָא יְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן:

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]:**
You shall keep my watch [**the watch of My Word**] that you shall not do any of the abominable customs that were done before you and you will not defile yourselves through them. I am Adonoy, your God.