Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities.
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.
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.
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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Galah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 18:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws Of Sexual Relations
7 The privities of thy father and thy mother, see thou unhele not: she is thy mother, therefore shalt thou not uncover her privities. 8 The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities. 9 Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy sister, the daughter of thy father or of thy mother: whether she be born at home or without.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 20:11
If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's privities, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heads.
1 Corinthians 5:1
There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.
Deuteronomy 22:30
No man shall take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's covering.
Deuteronomy 27:20
"'Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath opened his father's covering.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Genesis 49:4
As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest, for thou wentest up upon thy father's bed, and then defiledest thou my couch with going up.
Amos 2:7
They tread upon poor men's heads, in the dust of the earth, and crook the ways of the meek. The son and the father go to the harlot, to dishonour my holy name,
Genesis 35:22
And it chanced, as Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number.
2 Samuel 16:21-22
And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, "Get thee in unto thy father's concubines which he hath left to keep the house. For when all Israel shall hear that thou hast made thy father to stink, then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong."
Ezekiel 22:10
In thee have they discovered their fathers' shame, in thee have they vexed women in their sickness.