Leviticus 18:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 20:19 : 19 And you may not have sex connection with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for they are his near relations: their sin will be on them.
  • Exod 6:20 : 20 And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:6-11
    6 verses
    94%

    6 You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

    7 You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her.

    8 And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.

    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.

    10 You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself;

    11 Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.

  • Lev 18:13-20
    8 verses
    93%

    13 You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation.

    14 You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family;

    15 Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.

    16 You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

    17 You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

    18 And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

    19 And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

    20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

  • Lev 20:17-21
    5 verses
    89%

    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.

    18 And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people.

    19 And you may not have sex connection with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for they are his near relations: their sin will be on them.

    20 And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children.

    21 And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.

  • 30 A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

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    10 In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

    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.

  • 11 And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

  • 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.

  • Lev 21:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother;

    3 And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himself unclean.

  • 20 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • 18 So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.

  • 26 And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.

  • 12 And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:

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    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.

  • 25 They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean.

  • 29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

  • 1 It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.

  • 9 And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her loose behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire.

  • Gen 9:22-23
    2 verses
    68%

    22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.

    23 And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.

  • 22 You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

  • 12 On the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments of twisted threads.

  • 45 You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

  • 36 And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

  • 16 But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.

  • 24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • 16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

  • 3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

  • 13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • 26 So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.