A list worked outward from the household by degree of kinship, using one formula more than twenty times: do not uncover the nakedness of. The chapter frames it geographically at both ends — not as they do in Egypt, nor as in Canaan — and warns that the land vomits out those who defile it, including you. Dropped into the middle is the Molech prohibition, and near the end the two most contested verses in the book.