Leviticus 18:7
Do not dishonor your father by sleeping with your mother. She is your mother! You must not dishonor her.
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6No one must sleep with any close relative to uncover his nakedness. I am Yahweh.
8Do not sleep with any of your father's wives; you must not dishonor your father like that.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:8Do not sleep with any of your father's wives; you must not dishonor your father like that.
Leviticus 20:14If a man marries a woman and also marries her mother, this is wickedness. They must be burned, both he and the women, so that there will be no wickedness 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 →