Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
The nakedness of thy father's wife thou shalt not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
Holman Bible
You are not to have sex with your father’s wife;
International Standard Version
"You are not to have sexual relations with your father's wife. It's your own father's nakedness.
A Conservative Version
the nakedness of thy father's wife. It is thy father's nakedness.
American Standard Version
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
Amplified
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.
Bible in Basic English
And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.
Darby Translation
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
King James 2000
The nakedness of your father's wife shall you not uncover: it is your father's nakedness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You must not expose the nakedness of your father's wife--it is your father's nakedness.
Modern King James verseion
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife. It is your father's nakedness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities.
NET Bible
You must not have sexual intercourse with your father's wife; she is your father's nakedness.
New Heart English Bible
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.
The Emphasized Bible
The shame of thy father's wife, shalt thou not uncover, - thy father's shame, it is.
Webster
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
World English Bible
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.
Youngs Literal Translation
The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it is the nakedness of thy father.
Themes
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Incest
Copulation » Forbidden between persons near of kin
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 18:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws Of Sexual Relations
7 The nakedness of thy father, and the nakedness of thy mother thou shalt not uncover: it is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 8 The nakedness of thy father's wife thou shalt not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness. 9 The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father or daughter of thy mother, born within or born without, thou shalt not uncover their nakedness.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 20:11
And a man who shall lie with his father's wife, uncovered his father's nakedness: dying, they shall die: they two their blood is upon them,
1 Corinthians 5:1
In general is fornication heard among you, and such fornication which is not named in the nations, for any to have his father's wife.
Deuteronomy 22:30
A man shall not take his father's wife and shall not uncover his father's wing.
Deuteronomy 27:20
Cursed he lying with his father's wife, for he uncovered his father's wing: and all the people said, Amen.
Genesis 49:4
Vain glorious as water, thou shalt not be preeminent; for thou didst go up out of thy father's. bed; then didst thou defile, going up to my couch.
Amos 2:7
Panting for the dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and they will turn away the way of the humble: and a man and his father will go to the same young girl to profane my holy name:
Genesis 35:22
And it will be in the dwelling of Israel in that land, and Reuben will go, and will lie with Bilhah, his father's concubine: and Israel will hear. And the sons of Jacob will be twelve.
2 Samuel 16:21-22
And Ahithophel will say to Absalom, Come in to thy father's concubines which he left to watch the house; and all Israel hearing that thou madest thy father loathsome, and the hands of all that are with thee were strengthened.
Ezekiel 22:10
Thy father's nakedness was uncovered in thee: they humbled her set apart for uncleanness in thee.