Leviticus 18:15
You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have sexual relations with her.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 20:12 : 12 If a man goes to bed with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; their blood guilt is on themselves.
- Ezek 22:11 : 11 One 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.
- Gen 38:26 : 26 Judah recognized them and said,“She is more upright than I am, because I wouldn’t give her to Shelah my son.” He was not physically intimate with her again.
- Gen 38:18-19 : 18 He said,“What pledge should I give you?” She replied,“Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her, then slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. 19 She left immediately, removed her veil, and put on her widow’s clothes.
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- Lev 18:6-149 verses90%
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.
14You 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.
- Lev 18:16-205 verses89%
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.
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30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
- Lev 20:17-215 verses81%
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.
- Ezek 22:10-112 verses75%
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.
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29Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.
- Lev 20:11-122 verses75%
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.
12If a man goes to bed with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; their blood guilt is on themselves.
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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.
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3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
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16These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses, relating to a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father’s house.
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2“Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.
- Gen 38:15-162 verses71%
15When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
16He turned aside to her along the road and said,“Come, please, I want to sleep with you.”(He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked,“What will you give me so that you may sleep with me?”
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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.
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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–
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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!’
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20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
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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,
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18You must not commit adultery.
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14“You shall not commit adultery.
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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.
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9If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.
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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.
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29So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
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25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.
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26And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’
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56Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,
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9If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
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45You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
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2except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,
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20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.