Leviticus 18:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it `is' the nakedness of thy father.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 20:11 : 11 `And a man who lieth with his father's wife -- the nakedness of his father he hath uncovered -- both of them are certainly put to death; their blood `is' on them.
  • 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --
  • Deut 22:30 : 30 `A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
  • Deut 27:20 : 20 `Cursed `is' he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.
  • Gen 49:4 : 4 Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 and it cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth.
  • 2 Sam 16:21-22 : 21 And Ahithophel saith unto Absalom, `Go in unto the concubines of thy father, whom he left to keep the house, and all Israel hath heard that thou hast been abhorred by thy father, and the hands of all who `are' with thee have been strong.' 22 And they spread out for Absalom the tent on the roof, and Absalom goeth in unto the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel.
  • Ezek 22:10 : 10 The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:9-20
    12 verses
    93%

    9`The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home or born without; thou dost not uncover their nakedness.

    10`The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter: thou dost not uncover their nakedness; for theirs `is' thy nakedness.

    11`The nakedness of a daughter of thy father's wife, begotten of thy father, she `is' thy sister; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

    12`The nakedness of a sister of thy father thou dost not uncover; she `is' a relation of thy father.

    13`The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou dost not uncover; for she `is' thy mother's relation.

    14`The nakedness of thy father's brother thou dost not uncover; unto his wife thou dost not draw near; she `is' thine aunt.

    15`The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou dost not uncover; she `is' thy son's wife; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

    16`The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it `is' thy brother's nakedness.

    17`The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou dost not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter thou dost not take to uncover her nakedness; they `are' her relations; it `is' wickedness.

    18`And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

    19`And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.

    20`And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

  • Lev 18:6-7
    2 verses
    91%

    6`None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I `am' Jehovah.

    7`The nakedness of thy father and the nakedness of thy mother thou dost not uncover, she `is' thy mother; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

  • Lev 20:17-21
    5 verses
    85%

    17`And a man who taketh his sister, a daughter of his father or daughter of his mother, and he hath seen her nakedness, and she seeth his nakedness: it is a shame; and they have been cut off before the eyes of the sons of their people; the nakedness of his sister he hath uncovered; his iniquity he beareth.

    18`And a man who lieth with a sick woman, and hath uncovered her nakedness, her fountain he hath made bare, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood, -- even both of them have been cut off from the midst of their people.

    19`And the nakedness of thy mother's sister, and of thy father's sister, thou dost not uncover; because his relation he hath made bare; their iniquity they bear.

    20`And a man who lieth with his aunt, the nakedness of his uncle he hath uncovered; their sin they bear; childless they die.

    21`And a man who taketh his brother's wife -- it `is' impurity; the nakedness of his brother he hath uncovered; childless they are.

  • 30`A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

  • 11`And a man who lieth with his father's wife -- the nakedness of his father he hath uncovered -- both of them are certainly put to death; their blood `is' on them.

  • 77%

    10The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee.

    11And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination, And each his daughter-in-law hath defiled through wickedness, And each his sister, his father's daughter, hath humbled in thee.

  • 20`Cursed `is' he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

  • 1Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --

  • 29`Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.

  • Gen 9:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22And Ham, father of Canaan, seeth the nakedness of his father, and declareth to his two brethren without.

    23And Shem taketh -- Japheth also -- the garment, and they place on the shoulder of them both, and go backward, and cover the nakedness of their father; and their faces `are' backward, and their father's nakedness they have not seen.

  • 26neither dost thou go up by steps on Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not revealed upon it.

  • 22`Cursed `is' he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

  • 18`Thou dost not commit adultery.

  • 13and a man hath lain with her `with' the seed of copulation, and it hath been hid from the eyes of her husband, and concealed, and she hath been defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she hath not been caught,

  • 16These `are' the statutes which Jehovah hath commanded Moses between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, in her youth, `in' the house of her father.

  • 29So `is' he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.

  • 15On the mountains he hath not eaten, And his eyes he hath not lifted up Unto idols of the house of Israel, The wife of his neighbour he hath not defiled,

  • 22`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it `is'.

  • 25And they are both of them naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.

  • 14`Thou dost not commit adultery.

  • 9`And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring -- her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.

  • 11And he all those hath not done, For even on the mountains he hath eaten, And the wife of his neighbour he hath defiled,

  • 18And she revealeth her whoredoms, And she revealeth her nakedness, And alienated is My soul from off her, As alienated was My soul from off her sister.

  • 16and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

  • 18`And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation, they also have bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.

  • 24`Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;

  • Gen 19:33-34
    2 verses
    69%

    33And they cause their father to drink wine on that night; and the first-born goeth in, and lieth with her father, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up.

    34And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that the first-born saith unto the younger, `Lo, I have lain yesterday-night with my father: we cause him to drink wine also to-night, and go thou in, lie with him, and we preserve from our father -- a seed.'

  • 3and for his sister, the virgin, who is near unto him, who hath not been to a man; for her he is defiled.

  • 14`And a man who taketh the woman and her mother -- it `is' wickedness; with fire they burn him and them, and there is no wickedness in your midst.