Leviticus 18:17

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You 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 20:14 : 14 If 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.
  • Deut 27:23 : 23 ‘Cursed is the one who goes to bed with his mother-in-law.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:6-16
    11 verses
    91%

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

    7 You 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.

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

    9 You 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.

    10 You 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.

    11 You 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.

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

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

    14 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.

    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.

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

  • Lev 18:18-24
    7 verses
    86%

    18 You 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.

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

    21 You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD!

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

    23 You 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.

    24 Warning 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.

  • 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.

    18 If 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.

    19 You 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.

    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.

    21 If 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.

  • 79%

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

    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.

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

  • 14 If 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.

  • Lev 20:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11 If 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.

    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.

  • 16 and 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.

  • 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!’

  • 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!’

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

  • 9 If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death.

  • Lev 21:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • 17 Purity in Cultic Personnel There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.

  • 18 As for a woman whom a man goes to bed with, then has a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

  • 27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

  • 13 and 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–

  • 16 These 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.

  • 15 He 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,

  • 2 “Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.

  • 56 Likewise, 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,

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

  • 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.

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

  • 45 You 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.