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Leviticus 18:6

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness. I am the LORD.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.

In Context

5Ye shall therefore keep My statutes, and Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.

7The nakedness of thy father, and the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:33And they made their father drink wine that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Leviticus 20:11And the man that lieth with his father's wife — he hath uncovered his father's nakedness — both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus 21:2except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother;

Ezekiel 22:11And each hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and each hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and each in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:2-6

Cautions against Idolatrous Practices. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God. 3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. 4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God. 5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my… Read the whole commentary →

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