Parallel Verses
NET Bible
You must not have sexual intercourse with your father's wife; she 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.
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.
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 by having sexual intercourse with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have intercourse with her. 8 You must not have sexual intercourse with your father's wife; she is your father's nakedness. 9 You must not have sexual intercourse with your sister, whether she is your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual intercourse with either of them.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 20:11
If a man has sexual intercourse with his father's wife, he has exposed his father's nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father's wife.
Deuteronomy 22:30
A man may not marry his father's former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
Deuteronomy 27:20
Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his father's former wife, for he dishonors his father.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'
Genesis 49:4
You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father's bed, then you defiled it -- he got on my couch!
Amos 2:7
They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.
Genesis 35:22
While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
2 Samuel 16:21-22
Ahithophel replied to Absalom, "Have sex with your father's concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you."
Ezekiel 22:10
They have sex with their father's wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.