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Text -- Leviticus 18:5-30 (NET)
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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 .
18:18 You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive , to have sexual intercourse with her.
18:19 “‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.
18:20 You must not have sexual intercourse with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
18:21 You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech , so that you do not profane the name of your God . I am the Lord !
18:22 You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman ; it is a detestable act .
18:23 You must not have sexual intercourse with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it ; it is a perversion .
Warning against the Abominations of the Nations
18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things , for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things .
18:25 Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants .
18:26 You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations , both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst ,
18:27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations , and the land has become unclean .
18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.
18:29 For if anyone does any of these abominations , the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people .
18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God .’”
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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 |
WOMAN |
LEVITICUS, 1 |
Israel |
ATONEMENT, DAY OF |
PURITY |
RIGHTEOUSNESS |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Abomination |
BASTARD |
Incest |
Sexual Intercourse |
Affinity |
RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY |
GENESIS, 4 |
KINSMAN; KINSWOMAN |
Canaanites |
CRIME; CRIMES |
Adultery |
HUSBAND'S BROTHER |
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NET Notes -> 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; Lev 18:18; Lev 18:18; Lev 18:19; Lev 18:20; Lev 18:21; Lev 18:21; Lev 18:22; Lev 18:22; Lev 18:23; Lev 18:23; Lev 18:23; Lev 18:24; Lev 18:25; Lev 18:25; Lev 18:26; Lev 18:26; Lev 18:27; Lev 18:28; Lev 18:28; Lev 18:29; Lev 18:30; Lev 18:30
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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NET Notes: Lev 18:17 The term rendered “lewdness” almost always carries a connotation of cunning, evil device, and divisiveness (cf. HALOT 272 s.v. I ז...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:19 Heb “in the menstruation of her impurity”; NIV “during the uncleanness of her monthly period.”
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NET Notes: Lev 18:20 Heb “And to the wife of your fellow citizen you shall not give your layer for seed.” The meaning of “your layer” (ש...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:21 Heb “and you shall not profane.” Regarding “profane,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.
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NET Notes: Lev 18:22 The Hebrew term תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, rendered “detestable act”) refers to the r...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:23 The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” an...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:24 Heb “which I am sending away (Piel participle of שָׁלַח [shalakh, “to send”]) from your faces....
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NET Notes: Lev 18:25 Heb “and I have visited its [punishment for] iniquity on it.” See the note on Lev 17:16 above.
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NET Notes: Lev 18:26 Heb “the native and the sojourner”; NIV “The native-born and the aliens”; NAB “whether natives or resident aliens.”...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:27 Heb “for all these abominations the men of the land who were before you have done.”
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NET Notes: Lev 18:28 The MT reads the singular “nation” and is followed by ASV, NASB, NRSV; the LXX, Syriac, and Targum have the plural “nations” (...
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