Leviticus 18:7
“Do not disgrace your father by having sex with your mother [DOU].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
6“Do not have sex with any of your close relatives. It is I, Yahweh, who am commanding that.
8“Do not have sex with any of your father’s other wives, because that would disgrace your father.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:8“Do not have sex with any of your father’s other wives, because that would disgrace your father.
Leviticus 20:14‘If a man marries both a woman and her mother, that is a wicked thing. All three of them must be burned to death, in order that such a wicked practice will not continue to be done 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 →