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    "content": "Leviticus, Chapter 18 — 30 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "name": "Leviticus",
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      "order": 3,
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    "verseCount": 30,
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  "citation": "Leviticus 18 (Douay-Rheims)",
  "verses": [
    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the country of Chanaan, into which I will bring you. Nor shall you walk in their ordinances.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother: whether born at home or abroad.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son's daughter, or thy daughter's daughter: because it is thy own nakedness.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, whom she bore to thy father: and who is thy sister.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: because she is the flesh of thy father.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: because she is thy mother's flesh.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother: neither shalt thou approach to his wife, who is joined to thee by affinity.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: because she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: because it is the nakedness of thy brother.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy wife and her daughter. Thou shalt not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to discover her shame: because they are her flesh, and such copulation is incest.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is an abomination.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Thou shalt not copulate with any beast: neither shalt thou be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments: and do not any of these abominations. Neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.",
      "citation": "Leviticus 18:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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