Leviticus 18:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover; it is your father's nakedness.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover; it is thy father’s nakedness.

Common English Bible

⁸ You must not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ 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

⁸ 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 dwelt 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 not have pre-eminence because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it—you went up to my couch!

Ezekiel 22:10

In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they humble women who are unclean in their impurity.

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 blood is upon them.

Amos 2:7

they that trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same maiden, so that my holy name is profaned;

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father's wife.

Deuteronomy 22:30

“A man shall not take his father's wife, nor shall he uncover her who is his father's.

Deuteronomy 23:1

“He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 27:20

“ ‘Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered her who is his father's.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’