Leviticus 18:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover; she is your mother; you shall not have intercourse with her.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ The nakedness of thy father, even the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

Common English Bible

⁷ You must not uncover your father’s nakedness, which is your mother’s nakedness. She is your mother; you must not have sexual contact with her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ You shall not expose the nakedness of your father, or the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

Leviticus 18:7 Cross References

Genesis 19:32

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.”

Ezekiel 22:10

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

Leviticus 18:6

“None of you shall approach anyone near of kin to uncover nakedness: I am the Lord.

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.

Leviticus 20:14

If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is depravity; they shall be burned to death, both he and they, that there may be no depravity among you.

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!’