Leviticus 18:8
Do not sleep with any of your father's wives; you must not dishonor your father like that.
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In The King James Version
The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 35:22While Israel was living in that land, Reuben slept with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now Jacob had twelve sons.
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.
Deuteronomy 23:1No man injured by crushing or cutting off may enter the assembly of Yahweh.
2 Samuel 16:21Ahithophel answered Absalom, “Go sleep with your father's slave wives whom he has left to keep the palace, and all Israel will hear that you have become a stench to your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.”
Amos 2:7They trample on the heads of the poor as people trample on dust on the ground; 1 they push the oppressed away. 1 A man and his father sleep with the same girl 1 and so profane my holy name. 1
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 →