Leviticus 18:13
Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative.
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King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
KJV1611 – Modern English
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
Thou shalt not uncover{H1540} the nakedness{H6172} of thy mother's{H517} sister:{H269} for she is thy mother's{H517} near kinswoman.{H7607}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Thou shalt not uncover{H1540}{(H8762)} the nakedness{H6172} of thy mother's{H517} sister{H269}: for she is thy mother's{H517} near kinswoman{H7607}.
Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)
Thou shalt not dyscouer the secrettes off thy mothers syster, for she is thy mothers nexte kyn.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt not vncouer the preuytie of thy mothers sister, for it is yi mothers nexte kynswoman.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Thou shalt not discouer the shame of thy mothers sister: for she is thy mothers kinsewoman.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Thou shalt not discouer the nakednesse of thy mothers sister: for she is thy mothers kinswoman.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she [is] thy mother's near kinswoman.
Webster's Bible (1833)
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
`The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou dost not uncover; for she `is' thy mother's relation.
American Standard Version (1901)
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
American Standard Version (1901)
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation.
World English Bible (2000)
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Lev 18:6-127 verses93%
6 No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
7 Do not dishonor your father by uncovering your mother’s nakedness. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
8 Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.
9 Do 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.
10 Do not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would dishonor yourself.
11 Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
12 Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
- Lev 20:17-215 verses91%
17 If 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.
18 If 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.
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.
20 If a man lies with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
21 If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
- Lev 18:14-2411 verses90%
14 Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.
15 Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you must not uncover her nakedness.
16 Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.
17 Do 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.
18 Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
19 Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during the uncleanness of her monthly period.
20 Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.
21 Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
23 Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.
24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.
- Deut 27:22-232 verses74%
22 Cursed 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.'
23 Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
- Ezek 22:10-112 verses73%
10 In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.
11 One 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 21:2-32 verses72%
2 Except for a close relative, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, or his brother.
3 And also for his virgin sister, who is near to him and has not been married, he may defile himself for her.
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14 If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is depravity. He and they must be burned with fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.
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11 If 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.
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45 You 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.
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26 And do not go up to My altar by steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed on it.
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20 Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father's wife, for he has dishonored his father's bed. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
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18 When 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.
- 2 Sam 13:11-122 verses69%
11 But when she took them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, 'Come, lie with me, my sister.'
12 She answered him, 'No, my brother! Don’t force me. Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don’t do this outrageous thing.'
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2 The people of Judah and Israel will come together, appoint one leader, and rise up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
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25 Priests 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.
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6 But that prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he encouraged rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to lead you away from the path the LORD your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.
- 68%
29 Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will become filled with wickedness.
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11 He must not go near any dead body or make himself unclean, even for his father or his mother.
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12 Besides, she really is my sister—the daughter of my father though not of my mother—and she became my wife.
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13 and 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,
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18 You shall not commit adultery.
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14 You shall not commit adultery.
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20 My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
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20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
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9 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable practices of those nations.