Leviticus 18:9
Good News Translation
Do not have intercourse with your sister or your stepsister, whether or not she was brought up in the same house with you.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born at home or born abroad.

Contemporary English Version
Don't have sex with your sister or stepsister, whether you grew up together or not.

New American Bible
You shall not have intercourse with your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in your own household or born elsewhere.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother: whether born at home or abroad.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother: whether born at home or abroad.

Leviticus 20:17 If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity.

Deuteronomy 27:22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or of his mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

2 Samuel 13:11-14 And when she had presented him the meat, he took hold of her, and said: Come lie with me, my sister. . . .

Ezekiel 22:11 And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.

Context
Unlawful Sexual Relations
8Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father. 9Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother: whether born at home or abroad.10Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son's daughter, or thy daughter's daughter: because it is thy own nakedness.…
Cross References
Leviticus 18:10
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy son's daughter, or thy daughter's daughter: because it is thy own nakedness.

Leviticus 18:11
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, whom she bore to thy father: and who is thy sister.

Leviticus 20:17
If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity.

Deuteronomy 27:22
Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or of his mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

2 Samuel 13:14
But he would not hearken to her prayers, but being stronger overpowered her and lay with her.

Leviticus 18:8
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