Leviticus 18:7

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

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  • Lev 20:11 : 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.
  • Ezek 22:10 : 10 In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.
  • Lev 18:8-9 : 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. 13 Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative. 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.
  • Lev 20:14 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:8-22
    15 verses
    91%

    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.

    12Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

    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.

    21Do 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.

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

  • Lev 18:6
    88%

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

  • Lev 20:17-21
    5 verses
    87%

    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
    75%

    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
    75%

    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.

  • Exod 20:26
    74%

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

  • Lev 19:29
    74%

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

  • Deut 27:20
    73%

    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.'

  • Prov 6:20
    72%

    20My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

  • Lev 20:14
    72%

    14If 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.

  • Lev 21:11
    71%

    11He must not go near any dead body or make himself unclean, even for his father or his mother.

  • Prov 23:22
    71%

    22Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Lev 19:3
    71%

    3Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

  • Exod 20:12
    70%

    12Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Deut 27:22
    70%

    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.'

  • Deut 5:16
    70%

    16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well for you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Prov 1:8
    70%

    8Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching,

  • Lev 21:2
    70%

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

  • Matt 19:19
    70%

    19'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"

  • Deut 5:18
    70%

    18You shall not commit adultery.

  • Prov 19:26
    70%

    26Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother is a child who brings shame and disgrace.

  • Lev 20:9
    70%

    9Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is upon him.

  • Exod 20:14
    70%

    14You shall not commit adultery.

  • Hos 2:2
    70%

    2The 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.

  • Ezek 16:45
    70%

    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.

  • Prov 30:11
    70%

    11There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.

  • Gen 9:23
    70%

    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.

  • Exod 34:16
    69%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 5:1
    69%

    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.

  • Ezek 16:22
    69%

    22In all your detestable practices and prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.