Leviticus 18:13
 Leviticus 18:13 
New International Version (©2011)
"'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's close relative.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's blood relative.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You are not to have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's close relative.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"You are not to have sexual relations with your mother's sister. She's your mother's near blood relative.

NET Bible (©2006)
You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's flesh.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Never have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister. She is your maternal aunt.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.

American King James Version
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: because she is thy mother's flesh.

Darby Bible Translation
The nakedness of thy mother's sister shalt thou not uncover; for she is thy mother's near relation.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.

World English Bible
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.

Young's Literal Translation
The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou dost not uncover; for she is thy mother's relation.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:1-30 Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts. - Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister,.... Which is the same relation as before, an aunt by the mother's side; wherefore, if such a marriage was unlawful, this must also, and for the same reason:

for she is thy mother's near kinswoman; the same phraseology is used here as in the preceding verse; See Gill on Leviticus 18:12; and by the same rule a woman might not marry her uncle, whether by father or mother's side, the relation being the same, and this reaches to great-uncle and great-aunt; instances of women marrying their uncles, and men their aunts, among the Heathens, have been given, as among the Persians and Lacedaemonians by Herodotus (l), and among the Romans by Tacitus (m), but were, in his time, new things with the latter.

(l) Erato, sive, l. 6. c. 71. Polymnia, sive, l. 7. c. 224, 239. (m) Annal. l. 12. c. 5, 6, 7.


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Unlawful Sexual Relations
12You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman. 13You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman. 14You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach to his wife: she is your aunt. …

Leviticus 18:12 "'Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative.
Leviticus 18:14 "'Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.
Leviticus 20:19 "'Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.