Leviticus 18:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is the nakedness of your father.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover; it is your father's nakedness.

American Standard Version (1901)

The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover; it is thy father’s nakedness.

Common English Bible

You must not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

You shall not expose the nakedness of your father's wife; for it is the nakedness of your father.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.

Leviticus 18:8 Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

Genesis 49:4

Unstable as water, you shall no longer excel because you went up onto your father’s bed; then you defiled it—you went up onto my couch!

Ezekiel 22:10

In you they uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women during their menstrual periods.

Leviticus 20:11

The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall be put to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.

Amos 2:7

they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same young woman, so that my holy name is profaned;

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you and the sort of sexual immorality that is not found even among gentiles, for a man is living with his father’s wife.

Deuteronomy 22:30

“A man shall not marry his father’s wife, thereby violating his father’s rights.

Deuteronomy 23:1

“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall come into the assembly of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 27:20

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his father’s wife, because he has violated his father’s rights.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’