Leviticus 18:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ You shall not have intercourse with or uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or the daughter of thy mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

Common English Bible

⁹ You must not have sexual contact with your sister—regardless of whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born into the same household as you or outside it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, whether from father or from mother, whether she was born at home or abroad.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother: whether born at home or abroad.

Leviticus 18:9 Cross References

Ezekiel 22:11

One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father’s daughter.

Leviticus 18:10

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.

Leviticus 18:11

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, born in your father’s house, since she is your sister.

Leviticus 20:17

“If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall be subject to punishment.

Deuteronomy 27:22

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’