Leviticus 18:8

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife, even if she is not your mother, because that is like having sexual relations with your father.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:1

I don’t want to believe what I am hearing—that there is sexual sin among you. And it is such a bad kind of sexual sin that even those who have never known God don’t allow it. People say that a man there has his father’s wife.

Leviticus 20:11

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

Deuteronomy 27:20

“The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who shames his father by having sexual relations with his father’s wife.’ “Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 22:30

“A man must not bring shame to his father by marrying his father’s wife.

Amos 2:7

They pushed their faces into the ground and walked on them. They stopped listening to suffering people. Fathers and sons had sexual relations with the same woman. They ruined my holy name.

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

There men commit sexual sins with their father’s wife. There the men rape women—even during their monthly time of bleeding.

Genesis 35:22

Israel stayed there for a short time. While he was there, Reuben slept with Israel’s slave woman Bilhah. Israel heard about this, and he was very angry. These are the names of Jacob’s twelve sons:

Deuteronomy 23:1

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