Leviticus 18:7
You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her.
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6You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.
8And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:8And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.
Leviticus 20:14And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.
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 →