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Левит 20:17

Если кто возьмет сестру свою, дочь отца своего или дочь матери своей, и увидит наготу ее, и она увидит наготу его: это срам, да будут они истреблены пред глазами сынов народа своего; он открылнаготу сестры своей: грех свой понесет он.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Incest;   Marriage;   Sanitation;   The Topic Concordance - Sexual Activities;   Wickedness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fornication;   Marriage;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Immorality, Sexual;   Kill, Killing;   Marriage;   Sexuality, Human;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bastard;   Capital Punishment;   Crimes and Punishments;   Father's House;   Incest;   Leviticus;   Naked;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Stoning;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bastard;   Genesis;   Iniquity;   Leviticus;   Relationships, Family;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Brother;   Incest;   Leviticus;   Marriage Laws;   Targum;  

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.


 
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