Leviticus 18:8

Easy To Read Version

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife {even if she is not your mother}. Why? Because that is like having sexual relations with your father. [314]

Cross References

Genesis 35:22

Israel stayed there for a short time. While he was there, Reuben slept with Israel’s woman servant [214] Bilhah. Israel heard about this and was very angry.

Genesis 49:4

But your passion was like a flood you couldn’t control. So you will not remain my most honored son. You climbed into your father’s bed {and slept with one of his wives}. You brought shame to my bed, to the bed you lay on.”

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 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]

Amos 2:7

They pushed those poor peoples’ faces into the ground and walked on them. They stopped listening to suffering people. Fathers and sons have sexual relations with the same woman. They have ruined my holy name.

1 Corinthians 5:1

People are really saying that there is sexual sin among you. And it is such a bad kind of sexual sin that it does not happen even among those people that don’t know God. People say that a man there has his father’s wife.

Deuteronomy 22:30

“A man must not bring shame to his father by having sexual relations with his father’s wife.”

Deuteronomy 23:1

“A man with crushed testicles or part of his sex organs cut off may not join with the men of Israel to worship the Lord.

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] !’