Leviticus 18:13 "'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him—Very great laxity prevailed amongst the Egyptians in their sentiments and practice about the conjugal relation, as they not only openly sanctioned marriages between brothers and sisters, but even between parents and children. Such incestuous alliances Moses wisely prohibited, and his laws form the basis upon which the marriage regulations of this and other Christian nations are chiefly founded. This verse contains a general summary of all the particular prohibitions; and the forbidden intercourse is pointed out by the phrase, "to approach to." In the specified prohibitions that follow, all of which are included in this general summary, the prohibited familiarity is indicated by the phrases, to "uncover the nakedness" [Le 18:12-17], to "take" [Le 18:17, 18], and to "lie with" [Le 18:22, 23]. The phrase in this sixth verse, therefore, has the same identical meaning with each of the other three, and the marriages in reference to which it is used are those of consanguinity or too close affinity, amounting to incestuous connections.