Leviticus 18:19
And thou shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
20And thou shall not lay carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.
Cross References
Leviticus 15:19And if a woman has an issue, [and] her issue in her flesh is blood, she shall be seven days in her impurity, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 20:18And if a man shall lay with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. And both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Ezekiel 22:10In thee have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness. In thee have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:7-19
Incest Defined and Forbidden; Against Marrying Near Relations. ( b. c. 1490.) 6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord . 7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness. 9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she… Read the whole commentary →