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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.
or half sister
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.
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 fathers 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
Then fell Abraha vpo his face, and laughed, and sayde in his hert: Shal a childe be borne vnto me that am an hundreth yeare olde? And shall Sara yt is nyentie yeare olde, beare?
And Abraham was nyentie yeare olde and nyne, whan he cut of the foreskynne of his flesh.
And Abraham and Sara were both olde, & well stryken in age: so that it wente nomore with Sara after ye maner of wemen:
therfore laughed she within hir self, and sayde: Now that I am olde & my lorde olde also, shal I yet geue my self to lust?
seynge he shal be a greate and mightie people, and all ye people vpo earth shalbe blessed in him?
therfore will I go downe & se, whether they haue done all together, acordinge to that crye, which is come before me, or not, that I maye knowe.
Then sayde she vnto hir father: Be not angrie my lorde, that I can not ryse vp vnto the: for it goeth wt me after the maner of wemen. So he sought, and founde not the ymages.
Whan a woman hath the bloude yssue of hir flesh, she shalbe put a parte vij. daies in to a sundrie place. Who so euer toucheth her, shal be vncleane vntyll the eue.
And they had no childe, for Elizabeth was baren, and they were both well stricken in age.
And Zachary sayde vnto the Angel: Wherby shal I knowe this? For I am olde, and my wife well stricken in age.
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.