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Unlawful Sexual Relations

Leviticus 18:8

In 11 translations

BSB
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.
KJV
The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.
WEB
“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.
ASV
The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover; it is thy father’s nakedness.
LSV
You do not uncover the nakedness of the wife of your father; it [is] the nakedness of your father.
YLT
'The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it [is] the nakedness of thy father.
DBY
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
DRC
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.
GNV
The shame of thy fathers wife shalt thou not discouer: for it is thy fathers shame.
JPS
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
LXXE
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife; it is thy father's nakedness.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
עֶרְוַ֥ת אֵֽשֶׁת־אָבִ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תְגַלֵּ֑ה עֶרְוַ֥ת אָבִ֖יךָ הִֽוא׃
LXX-Br
Ἀσχημοσύνην γυναικὸς πατρός σου οὐκ ἀποκαλύψεις, ἀσχημοσύνη πατρός σου ἐστίν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Leviticus 20:11If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
  • Deuteronomy 22:30A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.
  • 1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
  • Deuteronomy 27:20‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  • Amos 2:7They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
  • Genesis 49:4Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
  • Ezekiel 22:10In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
  • Genesis 35:22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
  • 2 Samuel 16:21–22Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be…

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