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Leviticus 18:11
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"'You shall not uncoverThe nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister. "'
The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
As for the nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife, she is your sister, a relative of your father; you must not expose her nakedness.
"‘If your father and his wife have a daughter, she is your sister. You must not have sexual relations with her.
You must not have sexual intercourse with the daughter of your father's wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not have intercourse with her.
'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter; born to your father, she is your sister.
'The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, born to your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
The shame of thy fathers wiues daughter, begotten of thy father (for she is thy sister) thou shalt not, I say, discouer her shame.
The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, born to your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
You are not to have sexual relations with your father's wife's daughter, born to your father, because she is your sister; do not have sexual relations with her.
The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father: she is thy sister: thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
"If your father and his wife have a daughter, she is your sister. You must not have sexual relations with her.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister.
You shall not approach your fathers wifes daughter, begotten of your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Do not have intercourse with a half sister; she, too, is your sister.
You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter, who is adopted by your father; she is your sister.
The nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife, begotten by your father, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Thou shalt not vncouer ye preuytie of yi fathers wiues doughter, which is borne vnto him, and is thy sister.
The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.
The nakednesse of thy fathers wiues daughter begotten of thy father, which is thy sister: thou shalt not discouer her nakednesse.
The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
The nakednesse of thy fathers wiues daughter, begotten of thy father, (she is thy sister,) thou shalt not vncouer her nakednesse.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of the daughter of thy father’s wife; she is thy sister by the same father: thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
Thou schalt not schewe the filthe of the douyter of the wijf of thi fadir, which sche childide to thi fadir, and is thi sistir.
`The nakedness of a daughter of thy father's wife, begotten of thy father, she [is] thy sister; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.
You shall not have sex with your father's wife's daughter, begotten of your father, she is your sister.
The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten by thy father, (she [is] thy sister) thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father--she is your sister--you shall not uncover her nakedness.
"Do not have sexual relations with your stepsister, the daughter of any of your father's wives, for she is your sister.
Do not take the clothes off your father's wife's daughter, born to your father. She is your sister.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father, since she is your sister.
The shame of the daughter of thy father's wife, born to thy father, she being, thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her shame.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, whom she bore to thy father: and who is thy sister.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father, since she is your sister.
"Don't have sex with the daughter of your father's wife born to your father. She is your sister.
'The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, born to your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 13:12 - no such thing ought
Cross-References
Abraham bowed with his face to the ground and thought, "I am almost a hundred years old. How can I become a father? And Sarah is ninety. How can she have a child?" So he started laughing.
Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was well past the age for having children.
So she laughed and said to herself, "Now that I am worn out and my husband is old, will I really know such happiness?"
since his family will become a great and powerful nation that will be a blessing to all other nations on earth.
Now I am going down to see for myself if those people really are that bad. If they aren't, I want to know about it."
Rachel said, "Father, please don't be angry with me for not getting up; I am having my period." Laban kept on searching, but still did not find the idols.
When a woman has her monthly period, she remains unclean for seven days, and if you touch her, you must take a bath, but you remain unclean until evening.
But they did not have children. Elizabeth could not have any, and both Zechariah and Elizabeth were already old.
Zechariah said to the angel, "How will I know this is going to happen? My wife and I are both very old."
Your relative Elizabeth is also going to have a son, even though she is old. No one thought she could ever have a baby, but in three months she will have a son.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter,.... Either the daughter of his father by another wife, which seems to be countenanced by what follows:
begotten of thy father, she [is] thy sister; but then this coincides with what is prohibited, Leviticus 18:9, "the daughter of thy father"; that is, by another woman than a man's mother, only with this difference, that there is added, or "daughter of thy mother", that is, by another man than a man's own father; so that there is a prohibition of a sister whether by father or mother's side; here only as by the father's side, and so is only a part of that law; and, as some think, is for the confirmation of it, as Aben Ezra observes; or else the sense, as he thinks, is, that if a man marries a woman, and she has a little daughter by a former husband, that daughter may not be given in marriage to his son; and so the Septuagint version finishes this clause first, before it gives the other, which it considers as distinct from it, thus, "the shame of thy father's, wife's daughter thou shalt not uncover"; and then makes a distinct law of the latter; "she that is begotten of thy father is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her shame"; but then this last falls in with Leviticus 18:9, the Sadducees, as Aben Ezra also observes, by whom he means the Karaites, interpret it not of a mother's daughter, but of one brought up and educated by a man's father, and so is his adopted daughter, whom his son might not marry; and thus with the Romans it is said g, that adoptive kindred hindered marriage between parents and children altogether; and among brethren so far forth as the loss of freedom did not intervene: some understand this law in this light, as De Dieu, that in Leviticus 18:9; the son of a second marriage is forbidden to marry with an half sister of the first marriage, whether she is the father's daughter, that is, which the father had by his deceased wife, or the mother's daughter, that is, which his mother had by a deceased husband; but here the son of a first marriage is forbidden with a half sister of a second marriage, which his mother-in-law has bore to his father, and is therefore called "the daughter of thy father's wife"; that is, of thy stepmother, but so the same may be said to be "begotten of thy father"; and therefore one begotten in a former marriage may not be understood; but then as this forbids the marriage of a brother with a sister, that is, of the same father, though not of the same mother, it falls in within the former law; wherefore some h have been of opinion, that this law forbids a man to marry the daughter of a woman whom his father has taken to wife, who was his deceased brother's wife, upon the law in
Deuteronomy 25:5; by which marriage she became the father's daughter, and the son's sister; wherefore they take the phrase, "begotten of thy father", to signify "being akin" to thy father; which, if it can be established, makes a distinct law: Jarchi observes, on this phrase, "the daughter of thy father's wife",
"this teaches that a man is not guilty concerning his sister that is by an handmaid or stranger; therefore it is said, the daughter of thy father's wife, namely, one that was fit for marriage.''
thou shalt not uncover her nakedness; Deuteronomy 25:5- :.
g Paulus in Mosaic. & Roman. Leg. Collat. tit. 6. a Pithaeo. h Bertram. Lucubrat. Franktal. c. 6. Pool in loc.
