Leviticus 18:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.”
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“You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover; it is thy father’s nakedness.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it <FI>is<Fi> the nakedness of thy father.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 18:8 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 35:22While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
- Genesis 49:4Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
- Leviticus 20:11If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
- Deuteronomy 22:30A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.
- Deuteronomy 23:1No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 27:20‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- 2 Samuel 16:21Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
- Ezekiel 22:10In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
- Amos 2:7They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
- 1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
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