Leviticus 20:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“‘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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:9 : 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.
  • Deut 27:22 : 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!’
  • 2 Sam 13:12 : 12 But she said to him,“No, my brother! Don’t humiliate me! This just isn’t done in Israel! Don’t do this foolish thing!
  • 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 20:12 : 12 What’s more, she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 20:18-21
    4 verses
    88%

    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.

  • Lev 18:6-20
    15 verses
    85%

    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.

    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.

  • 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!’

  • 79%

    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.

  • Lev 20:11-16
    6 verses
    79%

    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.

    13If a man goes to bed with a male as one goes to bed with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

    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.

    15If a man has sexual relations with any animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

    16If a woman approaches any animal to copulate with it, you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

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

  • Lev 21:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • 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!’

  • 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–

  • 18When she lustfully exposed her nakedness, I was disgusted with her, just as I had been disgusted with her sister.

  • Lev 15:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16“‘When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,

    17and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.

    18As 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.

  • 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.

  • 11As she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said to her,“Come on! Get in bed with me, my sister!”

  • 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.

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    20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

    21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • 27Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.

  • 31But Simeon and Levi replied,“Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”

  • 4If, however, the people of the land shut their eyes to that man when he gives some of his children to Molech so that they do not put him to death,

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

  • 4When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done in Israel,

  • 16But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”