Leviticus 18:7

Easy To Read Version

“You must never have sexual relations with [313] your father or mother. This woman is your mother. So you must not have sexual relations with her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:32

So let’s get our father drunk with wine. Then we can have sexual relations with him. That way we can use our father to keep our family alive!”

Ezekiel 22:10

In Jerusalem, people do sexual sins with their father’s wife. In Jerusalem, men rape women—even during their monthly time of bleeding.

Leviticus 18:6

“You must never have sexual relations with [312] your close relatives! I am the Lord.

Leviticus 20:11

If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, then both the man and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death. [353] It is as if that man had had sexual relations with his father! [354]

Leviticus 20:14

“It is a sexual sin if a man has sexual relations with a woman and her mother. The people must burn that man and the two women in fire! Don’t let this sexual sin happen among your people!

Deuteronomy 27:20

“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that has sexual relations with his father’s wife. [179] Why? Because he brings shame to his father [180] !’