Leviticus 18:7

18:7 You must not ¹  expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual intercourse with your mother. ²  She is your mother; you must not have intercourse with her.

Leviticus 18:14

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. ³  She is your aunt. ⁴ 

Leviticus 19:3

19:3 Each of you must respect his mother and his father, ⁵  and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 21:2

21:2 except for his close relative who is near to him: ⁶  his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

Leviticus 21:9

21:9 If a daughter of a priest profanes herself by engaging in prostitution, she is profaning her father. She must be burned to death. ⁷ 

Leviticus 21:11

21:11 He must not go where there is any dead person; ⁸  he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

Leviticus 25:41

25:41 but then ⁹  he may go free, ¹⁰  he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors. ¹¹ 

Leviticus 26:39

Restoration through Confession and Repentance

26:39 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of ¹²  their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ ¹³  iniquities which are with them.

[18:7]  ¹ tn The verbal negative here is the same as that used in the Ten Commandments (Exod 20:4-5, 7, 13-17). It suggests permanent prohibition rather than a simple negative command and could, therefore, be rendered “must not” here and throughout the following section as it is in vv. 3-4 above.

[18:7]  ² tn Heb “The nakedness of your father and [i.e., even] the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover.”

[18:14]  ³ tn Heb “you must not draw near to his wife.” In the context this refers to approaching one’s aunt to have sexual intercourse with her, so this has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:14]  ⁴ tn As in v. 12 (see the note there), some mss and versions have “because she is your aunt.”

[19:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “A man his mother and his father you [plural] shall fear.” The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and certain Targum mss reverse the order, “his father and his mother.” The term “fear” is subject to misunderstanding by the modern reader, so “respect” has been used in the translation. Cf. NAB, NRSV “revere”; NASB “reverence.”

[21:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “except for his flesh, the one near to him.”

[21:9]  ⁹ tn See the note on “burned to death” in 20:14.

[21:11]  ¹¹ tc Although the MT has “persons” (plural), the LXX and Syriac have the singular “person” corresponding to the singular adjectival participle “dead” (cf. also Num 6:6).

[25:41]  ¹³ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.

[25:41]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “may go out from you.”

[25:41]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “fathers.”

[26:39]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in” (so KJV, ASV; also later in this verse).

[26:39]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “fathers’” (also in the following verse).