Quotes About Boundaries

If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.

None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

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.

You must not have sexual relations with your fatherís wife; it would dishonor your father.

You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your fatherís daughter or your motherís daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

You must not have sexual relations with your sonís daughter or your daughterís daughter, for that would shame your family.

You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your fatherís wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

You must not have sexual relations with your fatherís sister; she is your fatherís close relative.

You must not have sexual relations with your motherís sister, for she is your motherís close relative.

You must not dishonor your fatherís brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.

You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your sonís wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

You must not have sexual relations with your brotherís wife; that would shame your brother.

You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her sonís daughter or her daughterís daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.

You must not lie carnally with your neighborís wife and thus defile yourself with her.

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.

You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.

You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing oneís own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,

He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.

Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.

But the Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects, even for a moment, or they will die.”

and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.