Leviticus 18:19

And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

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In The King James Version

Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

In Context

18And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

20And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:19And if a woman has a flow of blood from her body, she will have to be kept separate for seven days, and anyone touching her will be unclean till evening.

Leviticus 20:18And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people.

Ezekiel 22:10In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

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 →

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