Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
You must not expose the nakedness of your father's wife--it is your 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.
Julia Smith Translation
The nakedness of thy father's wife thou shalt 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.
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
'ab
Galah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 18:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws Of Sexual Relations
7 You must not expose your father's nakedness or your mother's nakedness--she [is] your mother; you must not expose her nakedness. 8 You must not expose the nakedness of your father's wife--it is your father's nakedness. 9 [As for] your sister's nakedness, [whether] your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, [whether] {born at home} or {born abroad}, you must not expose their nakedness.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 20:11
As for a man who lies with his father's wife, he has exposed his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death--their blood [is] on them.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.
Deuteronomy 22:30
A man may not take the wife of his father, and [so] {he may not dishonor his father}.
Deuteronomy 27:20
'Cursed be the one who lies with the wife of his father, because {he has dishonored his father's bed}.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Genesis 49:4
Unstable as water, you shall not excel [any longer], for you went up upon the bed of your father, then defiled [it]. You went up upon my couch!
Amos 2:7
Those who trample the heads of the powerless into the dust of the ground and turn aside the way of the destitute, a man and his father {have sexual relations with} the same girl, so that [they] profane my holy name.
Genesis 35:22
And while Israel was living in that land Reuben went and had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine. And Israel heard [about it].
2 Samuel 16:21-22
And Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go to the concubines of your father whom he left behind to watch over the house, then all of Israel will hear that you made yourself odious to your father, and {all of your followers will be motivated}!"
Ezekiel 22:10
They uncover [the] nakedness of father among you; they violate [a woman] unclean of menstruation among you.