Parallel Verses
World English Bible
"'You shall not uncover 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.
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.
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 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness. 8 "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness. 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.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 20:11
"'The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.
Deuteronomy 22:30
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy 27:20
'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Genesis 49:4
Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
Amos 2:7
They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
Genesis 35:22
It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
2 Samuel 16:21-22
Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."
Ezekiel 22:10
In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.