Leviticus 20:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity.

Cross References

Genesis 20:12

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

2 Samuel 13:12

She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me; for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this wanton folly.

Exodus 30:33

Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’ ”

Ezekiel 22:11

One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father's daughter.

Leviticus 18:9

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.

Leviticus 20:16

If a woman approaches any beast and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.

Numbers 5:31

The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”

Deuteronomy 27:22

“ ‘Cursed be he who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’