Verse 9

You may not take your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, wherever her birth took place, among you or in another country.

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 20:17 : 17 And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.
  • Deut 27:22 : 22 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Ezek 22:11 : 11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.
  • Lev 18:11 : 11 Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.
  • 2 Sam 13:11-14 : 11 And when she took them to give them to him, he put his arms round her and said, Come to bed, my sister. 12 And answering him, she said, O my brother, do not put shame on me; it is not right for such a thing to be done in Israel: do not this evil thing. 13 What will become of me in my shame? and as for you, you will be looked down on with disgust by all Israel. Now then, go and make your request to the king, for he will not keep me from you. 14 But he would not give attention to what she said: but being stronger than she, he took her by force, and had connection with her.