“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister. She is your father’s near kinswoman.
“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.
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“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister. She is your father’s near kinswoman.
“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.
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Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman.
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Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister; for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
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- Leviticus 20:19 (v12) “ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They…
- Exodus 6:20 (v12) Amram took Jochebed his father’s sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. The years of the life of Amram were one…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v12 Or, secrets.
Or, secrets.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv12–13 Lev 18:12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of…
Lev 18:12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she [is] thy father’s near kinswoman.
Ver. 12. She is thy father’s near kins woman.] As near as may be: and therefore nature abhorreth any such copulation.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On v12 Thy aunt by the father’s side, as the next…
Thy aunt by the father’s side, as the next verse speaks of the aunt by the mother’s side. If Amram’s example be alleged to the contrary, See Poole "Exo 6:20".
Thy father’s near kinswoman, Heb. thy father’s flesh, a member and product of the same flesh from which thy father came.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv12–13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's…
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister,.... His aunt by his father's side, an instance of which we have in Amram, Exo 6:20; and Maimonides says (i), an aunt was forbidden whether she was a father's sister in lawful wedlock or in fornication:
she is thy father's near kinswoman; or, the rest of thy father (k); the residue of his flesh, one of the same flesh and blood with him; wherefore, as he could not marry her himself, so his son likewise was too near akin to enter into such a relation with her.
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(i) Hilchot Issure Biah, c. 2. sect. 5. (k) "reliquiarum patris tui", Tigurine version.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v12 Thy father’s sister - The instance of Amram and…
Thy father’s sister - The instance of Amram and Jochebed Exo 6:20 seems to show that marriage with an aunt was not considered wrong by the Israelites when they were in Egypt.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v12 Father. Nearly related, and springing from the same source.…
Father. Nearly related, and springing from the same source. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv12–13 (12) Thy father’s sister.—According to the law which obtained…
(12) Thy father’s sister.—According to the law which obtained in the time of Christ this prohibition not only extended to the father’s half-sisters, but even when they were begotten by the grandfather illegitimately. It is remarkable that Moses himself was the offspring of such an alliance, since his father Amram married his own aunt Jochebed, who was the sister of his father. (See Exo_6:20.)
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On v12 Vers. 12-15. Fifthly, incest with a paternal or maternal…
Vers. 12-15. Fifthly, incest with a paternal or maternal aunt is forbidden; sixthly, with an aunt by marriage; seventhly, with a daughter-in-law. The last of these finds its place in Ezekiel"s catalogue of abominations. (Eze_22:11; cf. Gen_28:18)
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v12 Do not go near her for that purpose
Do not go near her for that purpose
"Do not go to her in order to sleep with her"
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had relations with
dishonor
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v12 18:12-13 your father’s sister . . . mother’s sister:…
18:12-13 your father’s sister . . . mother’s sister: These actions would dishonor your father or mother.
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