Leviticus 18:7
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.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 20:11 : 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.
- Ezek 22:10 : 10 They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.
- Lev 18:8-9 : 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 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.
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- Lev 18:8-2215 verses91%
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.
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.
21You 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!
22You must not have sexual relations with a male as one has sexual relations with a woman; it is a detestable act.
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6Laws of Sexual Relations“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the LORD.
- Lev 20:17-215 verses87%
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.
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30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
- 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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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.
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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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29Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.
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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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20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
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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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11He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.
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22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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3Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
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12“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.
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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!’
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16Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.
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8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
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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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19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
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18You must not commit adultery.
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26The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
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9Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.
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14“You shall not commit adultery.
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2Idolatrous Israel Will Be Punished Like a Prostitute Plead earnestly with your mother(for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.
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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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11There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
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23Shem and Japheth took the garment and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they did not see their father’s nakedness.
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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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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.
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22And with all your abominable practices and prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your blood.