Leviticus 21:3
and his virgin sister who is near to him, who has no husband; he may defile himself for her.
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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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4He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself.
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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 21:13-153 verses78%
13He must take a wife who is a virgin.
14He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.
15He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”
- Lev 20:17-215 verses77%
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.
- Lev 18:8-147 verses75%
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.
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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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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.
8All the days of his separation he must be holy to the LORD.
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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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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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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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9If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
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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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7They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
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23If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her,
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36If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.
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30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
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6does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period,
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28But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.
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21Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
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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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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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14accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”
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22They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.
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20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
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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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6Laws of Sexual Relations“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the LORD.
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12If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,
13but if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat from her father’s food, but no lay person may eat it.
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23If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening,
24and if a man actually goes to bed with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.
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4her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.