Leviticus 18:17
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.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 20:14 : 14 And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.
- Deut 27:23 : 23 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it.
- Amos 2:7 : 7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
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- Lev 18:6-1611 verses91%
6You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.
7You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her.
8And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.
9You 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.
10You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself;
11Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.
12You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation.
13You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation.
14You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family;
15Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.
16You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.
- Lev 18:18-247 verses86%
18And 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.
19And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.
20And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.
21And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
22You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.
23And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act.
24Do 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:
- Lev 20:17-215 verses86%
17And 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.
18And 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.
19And 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.
20And 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.
21And 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.
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30A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.
- Ezek 22:10-112 verses79%
10In 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.
11And 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.
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29Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.
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14And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.
- Lev 20:11-122 verses75%
11And 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.
12And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them.
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16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.
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22Cursed 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.
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20Cursed 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.
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3Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.
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9And 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.
- Lev 21:2-32 verses71%
2But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother;
3And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himself unclean.
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17No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.
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18And if a man has sex relations with a woman and his seed goes out from him, the two of them will have to be bathed in water and will be unclean till evening.
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27(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)
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13By 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;
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16But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.
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15Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,
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2You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.
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56The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;
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26And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.
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25They 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.
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11Who has taken flesh with the blood as food, and has had connection with his neighbour's wife,
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45You 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.