Leviticus 18:8
New International Version
“’Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.

New Living Translation
“Do not have sexual relations with any of your father’s wives, for this would violate your father.

English Standard Version
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.

King James Bible
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

New King James Version
The nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness.

New American Standard Bible
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

NASB 1995
‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

NASB 1977
‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

Amplified Bible
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

Christian Standard Bible
You are not to have sex with your father’s wife; she is your father’s family.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are not to have sex with your father’s wife; it will shame your father.

American Standard Version
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not expose the nakedness of the wife of your father, for it is the nakedness of your father.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife; it is thy father's nakedness.

Contemporary English Version
And don't disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.

English Revised Version
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never have sexual intercourse with your stepmother. She is related to you through your father.

Good News Translation
Do not disgrace your father by having intercourse with any of his other wives.

International Standard Version
"You are not to have sexual relations with your father's wife. It's your own father's nakedness.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

Literal Standard Version
You do not uncover the nakedness of the wife of your father; it [is] the nakedness of your father.

Majority Standard Bible
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.

New American Bible
You shall not have intercourse with your father’s wife, for that would be a disgrace to your father.

NET Bible
You must not have sexual intercourse with your father's wife; she is your father's nakedness.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is the nakedness of your father.

New Heart English Bible
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it is the nakedness of thy father.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Unlawful Sexual Relations
7You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her. 8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father. 9You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father's wife.

Leviticus 20:11
If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Deuteronomy 22:30
A man is not to marry his father's wife, so that he will not dishonor his father's marriage bed.

Deuteronomy 27:20
Cursed is he who sleeps with his father's wife, for he has violated his father's marriage bed.' And let all the people say, 'Amen!'

Ezekiel 22:10
In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.


Treasury of Scripture

The nakedness of your father's wife shall you not uncover: it is your father's nakedness.

Leviticus 20:11
And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Genesis 35:22
And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

Genesis 49:4
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

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Leviticus 18
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(8) The nakedness of thy father's wife.--Whilst the former prohibition refers to the son's own mother, this law is directed against illicit commerce with his stepmother. Here we have an instance where the phrase "to uncover the nakedness" denotes both illicit commerce and incestuous marriage. Accordingly the administrators of the law during the second Temple defined it as follows; a man's father's wife is for ever prohibited, whether she be simply betrothed or married to his father, whether she be divorced or not, whether she be a widow or not; all connection with her on the part of the father's son is forbidden. If he lie with her while her husband is alive, he is doubly guilty, first, because she is near of kin, and secondly, because she is another man's wife. This, therefore, includes the sin of Reuben with Bilhah, his father's concubine (Genesis 35:22), and of Absalom with the wives of his father (2Samuel 16:20-23; 1Kings 2:17), which was not incestuous marriage but adultery, since their husbands were alive and the wives were not divorced from them, as well as the sin practised among some of the Christians in Corinth, which consisted in sons actually marrying their divorced stepmothers in the lifetime of their fathers, and which the Apostle denounced with such severity (1Corinthians 5:1-4). Among the ancient Arabs, marriages with stepmothers were common, and to this day among some tribes in Africa, when a father is unable through advanced age to attend to his young wives, he voluntarily gives them over to his eldest son. The Koran, however, like the Mosaic law, proscribes these marriages (Koran, 4:27).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You must not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

have sexual relations with
עֶרְוַ֥ת (‘er·waṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6172: Nakedness

your father’s
אָבִ֖יךָ (’ā·ḇî·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

wife;
אֵֽשֶׁת־ (’ê·šeṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

it
הִֽוא׃ (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

would dishonor
עֶרְוַ֥ת (‘er·waṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6172: Nakedness

your father.
אָבִ֖יךָ (’ā·ḇî·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father


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