Leviticus 20:17

New International Version

“ ‘If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.

Cross References

Genesis 20:12

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.

2 Samuel 13:12

“No, my brother!” she said to him. “Don’t force me! Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don’t do this wicked thing.

Exodus 30:33

Whoever makes perfume like it and puts it on anyone other than a priest must be cut off from their people.’ ”

Ezekiel 22:11

In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

Leviticus 18:9

“ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

Leviticus 20:16

“ ‘If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Numbers 5:31

The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’ ”

Deuteronomy 27:22

“Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”