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Leviticus 18:6

No one must sleep with any close relative to uncover his nakedness. I am Yahweh.

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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

5Therefore you must keep my decrees and my laws. If a person obeys them, he will live because of them. I am Yahweh.

7Do not dishonor your father by sleeping with your mother. She is your mother! You must not dishonor her.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:33So they made their father drink wine that night. Then the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Leviticus 20:11If a man lies with his father's wife, he uncovers his father's nakedness. Both the son and his father's wife must certainly be put to death. Their blood is upon them.

Leviticus 21:2except for his closest relatives—his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

Ezekiel 22:11Men who commit abominations with their neighbors' wives, and men who make their own daughters-in-law shamefully unclean; men who abuse their own sisters—daughters of their own fathers—all these are done within you.

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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