Leviticus 18:18

+ 18:18. Lev 18:18 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.455): Not to have sexual relations with your wife’s sister (sister-in-law) “‘You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

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Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

In Context

17+ 18:17. Lev 18:17 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.452): Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. + 18:17. Lev 18:17 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.453): Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her son’s daughter (great granddaughter) You shall not take her son’s daughter, + 18:17. Lev 18:17 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.454): Not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter’s daughter (great granddaughter) or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

19+ 18:19. Lev 18:19 (Lev 18:24-30) (#7.456): Not to have sexual relations with a woman unclean due to niddah ·menstruation· “‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

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Cross References

Genesis 29:28Jacob [Supplanter] did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel [Ewe sheep] his daughter as wife.

Exodus 26:3Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

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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