Leviticus 18:12

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Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

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  • Lev 20:19 : 19 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or your father's sister, for this would dishonor a close relative. They shall bear their iniquity.
  • Exod 6:20 : 20 Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:6-11
    6 verses
    94%

    6No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

    7Do not dishonor your father by uncovering your mother’s nakedness. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

    8Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.

    9Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born in the same household or elsewhere.

    10Do not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would dishonor yourself.

    11Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

  • Lev 18:13-20
    8 verses
    93%

    13Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative.

    14Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.

    15Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you must not uncover her nakedness.

    16Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

    17Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

    18Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

    19Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

    20Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

  • Lev 20:17-21
    5 verses
    89%

    17If a man marries his sister, whether she is the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother, and they see each other's nakedness, it is a disgrace. They shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness and shall bear his iniquity.

    18If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual impurity and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her source of blood, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

    19You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or your father's sister, for this would dishonor a close relative. They shall bear their iniquity.

    20If a man lies with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

    21If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.

    11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • Lev 20:11
    74%

    11If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

  • Deut 27:22
    74%

    22Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Lev 21:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2Except for a close relative, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, or his brother.

    3And also for his virgin sister, who is near to him and has not been married, he may defile himself for her.

  • Deut 27:20
    72%

    20Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father's wife, for he has dishonored his father's bed. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Ezek 23:18
    70%

    18When she openly displayed her prostitution and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

  • Exod 20:26
    70%

    26And do not go up to My altar by steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed on it.

  • Gen 20:12
    69%

    12Besides, she really is my sister—the daughter of my father though not of my mother—and she became my wife.

  • 2 Sam 13:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11But when she took them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, 'Come, lie with me, my sister.'

    12She answered him, 'No, my brother! Don’t force me. Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don’t do this outrageous thing.'

  • Ezek 44:25
    69%

    25Priests must not come near a dead person and defile themselves, except for a father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or an unmarried sister. For these, they may defile themselves.

  • Lev 19:29
    69%

    29Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will become filled with wickedness.

  • 1 Cor 5:1
    68%

    1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and a kind of immorality that is not even found among the Gentiles—a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.

  • Lev 21:9
    68%

    9If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she profanes her father and must be burned with fire.

  • Gen 9:22-23
    2 verses
    68%

    22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

    23But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it across their shoulders, and walked backward to cover their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they would not see their father’s nakedness.

  • Lev 18:22
    67%

    22Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

  • Deut 22:12
    67%

    12Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

  • Ezek 16:45
    67%

    45You are a true daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. And you are a sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

  • Gen 19:36
    67%

    36Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

  • Num 30:16
    67%

    16If he annuls them after he hears of them, then he must bear the consequences of her wrongdoing.

  • Lev 18:24
    67%

    24Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

  • Exod 34:16
    66%

    16And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

  • Deut 7:3
    66%

    3Do not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • Num 5:13
    66%

    13and another man has sexual relations with her secretly, and it is hidden from her husband, and she is not caught but has become defiled, even though there is no witness against her,

  • Jer 13:26
    66%

    26So I will expose your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.