Leviticus 20:19

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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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:6 : 6 Laws of Sexual Relations“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the LORD.
  • Lev 18:12-30 : 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. 17 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. 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. 25 Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants. 26 You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst, 27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean. 28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you. 29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people. 30 You must obey my charge not to practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.’”
  • Exod 6:20 : 20 Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses.(The length of Amram’s life was 137 years.)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:6-20
    15 verses
    91%

    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.

  • Lev 20:16-18
    3 verses
    88%

    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.

    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.

  • Lev 20:20-21
    2 verses
    87%

    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.

  • Deut 22:30
    80%

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

  • Lev 20:11-14
    4 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Deut 27:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    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!’

    23‘Cursed is the one who goes to bed with his mother-in-law.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Deut 27:20
    76%

    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
    74%

    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.

  • Ezek 44:25
    73%

    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.

  • Lev 21:11
    72%

    11He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

  • Exod 20:26
    71%

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

  • Lev 19:20
    71%

    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.

  • Lev 19:29
    71%

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

  • Lev 20:9
    71%

    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.

  • Num 5:13
    70%

    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–

  • Num 6:7
    70%

    7He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.

  • Lev 15:18
    70%

    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.

  • Prov 6:29
    69%

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

  • Lev 18:22
    69%

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

  • Lev 17:16
    69%

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

  • Lev 15:31
    69%

    31Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

  • Ezek 18:18
    69%

    18As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

  • Lev 18:24
    69%

    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.

  • Ezek 18:20
    69%

    20The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness.