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Bible Verses About Incest

20 verses · 1 aspect

Key Bible Verses

  1. None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

  2. You 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.

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

  4. You 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.

  5. You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.

  6. You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

  7. You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

  8. You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.

  9. You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.

  10. You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

  11. You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.

  12. You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

  13. You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

  14. 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.

  15. If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.

  16. You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

  17. If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless.

  18. If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.

  19. ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

  20. ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’