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Text -- Leviticus 18:1-17 (NET)
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Context
Exhortation to Obedience and Life
18:1 The Lord spoke to Moses :
18:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘I am the Lord your God !
18:3 You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living , and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes .
18:4 You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes . I am the Lord your God .
18:5 So you must keep my statutes and my regulations ; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord .
Laws of Sexual Relations
18:6 “‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the Lord .
18:7 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.
18:8 You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife ; she is your father’s nakedness .
18:9 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.
18:10 You must not expose the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual intercourse with them, because they are your own nakedness .
18:11 You must not have sexual intercourse with the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father ; she is your sister . You must not have intercourse with her.
18:12 You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s sister ; she is your father’s flesh .
18:13 You must not have sexual intercourse intercourse with your mother’s sister , because she is your mother’s flesh .
18:14 You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother ; you must not approach his wife to have sexual intercourse with her. She is your aunt .
18:15 You must not have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law ; she is your son’s wife . You must not have intercourse with her.
18:16 You must not have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife ; she is your brother’s nakedness .
18:17 You must not have sexual intercourse with both a woman and her daughter ; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have intercourse with them . They are closely related to her – it is lewdness .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Marriage |
RIGHTEOUSNESS |
WOMAN |
LEVITICUS, 1 |
Israel |
PURITY |
ATONEMENT, DAY OF |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Affinity |
Abomination |
Incest |
BASTARD |
Sexual Intercourse |
RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY |
ALLIANCE |
KINSMAN; KINSWOMAN |
Example |
LEVITICUS, 2 |
FLESH |
ENCHANTMENT |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Lev 18:3; Lev 18:3; Lev 18:3; Lev 18:4; Lev 18:4; Lev 18:4; Lev 18:5; Lev 18:5; Lev 18:6; Lev 18:6; Lev 18:6; Lev 18:7; Lev 18:7; Lev 18:7; Lev 18:8; Lev 18:9; Lev 18:9; Lev 18:9; Lev 18:9; Lev 18:10; Lev 18:11; Lev 18:12; Lev 18:14; Lev 18:14; Lev 18:16; Lev 18:17; Lev 18:17; Lev 18:17
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NET Notes: Lev 18:5 Heb “which the man shall do them and shall live in them.” The term for “a man, human being; mankind” (אָד...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:6 The general statement prohibiting sexual intercourse between close relatives serves as an opening summary statement for the following section, which g...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:7 Commentators suggest that the point of referring to the father’s nakedness is that the mother’s sexuality belongs to the father and is for...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:8 Heb “the nakedness of your father she is.” See the note on v. 7 above. This law refers to another wife of the man’s father, who is n...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:10 That is, to have sexual intercourse with one’s granddaughter would be like openly exposing one’s own shameful nakedness (see the note on v...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:11 Heb “The nakedness of the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father, she is your sister; you must not uncover her nakedness.̶...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:12 A few medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate all read “because she is the flesh of your father,” like the MT of v. 13.
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NET Notes: Lev 18:14 As in v. 12 (see the note there), some mss and versions have “because she is your aunt.”
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