Leviticus 18:6 · KJV
“None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover {their} nakedness: I {am} the LORD. {near...: Heb. remainder of his flesh}”
— Leviticus 18:6
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I {am} the LORD.
The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she {is} thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18 — Context
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I {am} the LORD your God.
5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I {am} the LORD.
6None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover {their} nakedness: I {am} the LORD. {near...: Heb. remainder of his flesh}
7The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she {is} thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
8The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it {is} thy father's nakedness.
Cross References
Leviticus 20:17-21
And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it {is} a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 18:7-19
The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she {is} thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 20:11-12
And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood {shall be} upon them.
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