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

You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.

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.

May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

The father of your nation sinned; your spokesmen rebelled against me.

“Your father made us work too hard. Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”

“Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”

So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.”

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he got on my couch!

Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father’s sons will bow down before you.

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave these instructions before he died:

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.

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.

David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!

However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.