Leviticus 18:6

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Leviticus 18:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.

5 Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

6 None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

7 You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

8 You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.

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Leviticus 18:7

You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

Leviticus 18:8

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.

Leviticus 18:9

You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

Leviticus 18:10

You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.

Leviticus 18:11

You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

Leviticus 18:12

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

Leviticus 18:13

You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.

Leviticus 18:14

You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.

Leviticus 18:15

You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

Leviticus 18:16

You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.

Leviticus 18:17

You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

Leviticus 18:18

You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

Leviticus 18:19

You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.

Leviticus 20:11

If 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.

Leviticus 20:12

If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.

Leviticus 20:17

If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 20:18

If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.

Leviticus 20:19

You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

Leviticus 20:20

If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless.

Leviticus 20:21

If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.