Leviticus 18:14

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You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not approach his wife to have marital relations with her. She is your aunt.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 20:20 : 20 If a man goes to bed with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless.

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  • Lev 18:6-13
    8 verses
    92%

    6Laws of Sexual Relations“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the LORD.

    7You must not expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

    8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.

    9You must not have sexual relations with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual relations with either of them.

    10You must not expose the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual relations with them, because they are your own nakedness.

    11You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not have sexual relations with her.

    12You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.

    13You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.

  • Lev 18:15-20
    6 verses
    89%

    15You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have sexual relations with her.

    16You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.

    17You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have sexual relations with them. They are closely related to her– it is lewdness.

    18You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.

    19“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.

    20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

  • Lev 20:17-21
    5 verses
    86%

    17“‘If a man has marital relations with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has exposed his sister’s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

    18If a man goes to bed with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has exposed the fountain of her blood, so both of them must be cut off from the midst of their people.

    19You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.

    20If a man goes to bed with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless.

    21If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.

  • 30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

  • 77%

    10They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.

    11One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.

  • 11If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

  • 20‘Cursed is the one who goes to bed with his father’s former wife, for he dishonors his father.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Lev 21:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

    3and his virgin sister who is near to him, who has no husband; he may defile himself for her.

  • 22‘Cursed is the one who goes to bed with his sister, the daughter of either his father or mother.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • 26And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’

  • 14“You shall not commit adultery.

  • Lev 18:22-24
    3 verses
    71%

    22You must not have sexual relations with a male as one has sexual relations with a woman; it is a detestable act.

    23You must not have sexual relations with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is a perversion.

    24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

  • 29Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.

  • 5Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

  • 13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–

  • 18You must not commit adultery.

  • 25“‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or unmarried sister, they may defile themselves.

  • 29So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.

  • 15He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

  • 30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • 3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • 11(though the father did not do any of them). He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,

  • 14If a man has marital relations with both a woman and her mother, it is lewdness. Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst.

  • 1Church Discipline It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.

  • 12You shall make yourselves tassels for the four corners of the clothing you wear.

  • 16and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.

  • 1Laws Concerning Preservation of Life When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.

  • 12What’s more, she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

  • 38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

  • 17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.