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Louis Segond
Lévitique 20:17
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Si un homme prend sa sœur, fille de son père ou fille de sa mère, s'il voit sa nudité, et qu'elle voie la sienne, c'est une infamie; ils seront retranchés sous les yeux des enfants de leur peuple; il a découvert la nudité de sa sœur; il portera son iniquité.
Et si un homme prend sa soeur, fille de son père, ou fille de sa mère, et voit sa nudité, et qu'elle voie sa nudité à lui, c'est une honte: ils seront retranchés devant les yeux des fils de leur peuple; il a découvert la nudité de sa soeur, il portera son iniquité.
Quand un homme aura pris sa sœur, fille de son père, ou fille de sa mère, et aura vu sa nudité, et qu'elle aura vu la nudité de cet homme; c'est une chose infâme; ils seront donc retranchés en la présence des enfants de leur peuple; il a découvert la nudité de sa sœur, il portera son iniquité.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Leviticus 18:9, Genesis 20:12, Deuteronomy 27:22, 2 Samuel 13:12, Ezekiel 22:11
Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:1 - bear Leviticus 7:18 - bear Leviticus 17:16 - General Leviticus 18:6 - to uncover Leviticus 24:15 - bear his sin Numbers 5:31 - bear 2 Samuel 13:4 - my brother
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter,.... Take her to be his wife, or commit lewdness with her, whether she be his sister by both father and mother's side, or whether by one only, either way she is his sister, and it is not lawful to marry her, or lie with her, see Leviticus 18:9:
and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; which is not to be understood of an immodest view, exposing to each other what should not be seen, and pleasing themselves wills such obscene sights, but of the act of lying together, for so it is afterwards explained by a phrase frequently used to express that action by; and it denotes, as Aben Ezra observes, their mutual consent and agreement in it:
it [is] a wicked thing; and by no means to be done; it is a breach of a former law, it is a scandalous and reproachful thing, and the word is sometimes used for reproach, as in Proverbs 14:34;
and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people; by death, either by the hand of the civil magistrate, or by the hand of God, by the pestilence, as the Targum of Jonathan; Ben Gersom interprets it, of their dying childless, as in some following cases, Leviticus 20:20;
he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; or lay with her, which explains a preceding clause:
he shall bear his iniquity; the punishment of it, and he alone, as Aben Ezra observes.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Cut off ... - See Exodus 31:14 note. The more full expression here used probably refers to some special form of public excommunication, accompanied, it may be, by expulsion from the camp.
