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Leviticus 18:6–18

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6“You are not to come nearz any close relativeC for sexual intercourse;aa I am the Lord. 7You are not to violate the intimacy that belongs to your fatherab and mother.D She is your mother; you must not have sexual intercourse with her. 8You are not to have sex with your father’s wife;ac she is your father’s family.ad 9You are not to have sexual intercourse with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s,ae whether born at home or born elsewhere. You are not to have sex with her. 10You are not to have sexual intercourse with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for they are your family.E 11You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter, who is adopted byF your father; she is your sister. 12You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s sister;af she is your father’s close relative. 13You are not to have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister,ag for she is your mother’s close relative. 14You are not to violate the intimacy that belongs toG your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual intercourse; she is your aunt.ah 15You are not to have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law.ai She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sex with her. 16You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s family.aj 17You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter.ak You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.al 18You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.a

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Footnotes

  1. C any flesh of his flesh
  2. D Do not uncover your father’s nakedness and your mother’s nakedness
  3. E because they are your nakedness
  4. F daughter, a relative of
  5. G Do not uncover the nakedness of

Cross references

  1. zGn 20:4
  2. aa1Tm 4:3
  3. abEzk 22:10
  4. acGn 35:22; 49:4; Lv 20:11; 2Sm 16:21–22; Am 2:7; 1Co 5:1
  5. adLv 20:11
  6. aeLv 20:17; Dt 27:22; 2Sm 13:11–14; Ezk 22:11
  7. afEx 6:20
  8. agLv 20:19
  9. ahLv 20:20
  10. aiGn 38:16; Lv 20:12; Ezk 22:11
  11. ajLv 20:21; Dt 25:5–10; Mt 14:3–4; Mk 6:18
  12. akLv 20:14; Dt 27:23; Am 2:7
  13. alLv 19:29
  14. aGn 29:21–28