You must not<n id="1" /> expose your father&#8217;s nakedness by having sexual intercourse with your mother.<n id="2" /> She is your mother; you must not have intercourse with her.

You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother&#8217;s sister, because she is your mother&#8217;s flesh.

Leave immediately<n id="1" /> for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother&#8217;s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother&#8217;s brother.

<p class="poetry">You plot against your brother;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you slander your own brother.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Listen,<n id="1" /> my child,<n id="2" /> to the instruction<n id="3" /> from<n id="4" /> your father,p> <p class="poetry">and do not forsake the teaching<n id="5" /> from<n id="6" /> your mother.p>

<p class="poetry">My child, guard the commands of your fatherp> <p class="poetry">and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to your father who begot you,p> <p class="poetry">and do not despise your mother when she is old.p>

and say:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;What a lioness was your mother among the lions!p> <p class="poetry">She lay among young lions;<n id="1" /> she reared her cubs.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard,<n id="1" /> planted by water.p> <p class="poetry">It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.p>

<p class="poetry">You stumble day and night,p> <p class="poetry">and the false prophets stumble with you;p> <p class="poetry">You have destroyed your own people!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">May peoples serve youp> <p class="poetry">and nations bow down to you.p> <p class="poetry">You will be<n id="1" /> lord<n id="2" /> over your brothers,p> <p class="poetry">and the sons of your mother will bow down to you.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">May those who curse you be cursed,p> <p class="poetry">and those who bless you be blessed.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Honor<n id="1" /> your father and your mother, that you may live a long time<n id="2" /> in the land<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving to you.p>

You must not have sexual intercourse with your sister, whether she is your father&#8217;s daughter or your mother&#8217;s daughter,<n id="1" /> whether she is born in the same household or born outside it;<n id="2" /> you must not have sexual intercourse with either of them.<n id="3" />

You must not expose the nakedness of your mother&#8217;s sister and your father&#8217;s sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative.<n id="1" /> They must bear their punishment for iniquity.<n id="2" />

Samuel said, &#8220;Just as your sword left women childless, so your mother will be the most bereaved among women!&#8221; Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces there in Gilgal before the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="bodytext">When Jehoram saw Jehu, he asked, &#8220;Is everything all right, Jehu?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;How can everything be all right as long as your mother Jezebel promotes idolatry and pagan practices?&#8221;<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Maidens about His Beloved:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Who is this coming up from the desert,p> <p class="poetry">leaning on her beloved?p> <p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Under the apple tree I aroused you;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">there your mother conceived you,p> <p class="poetry">there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth.<n id="2" />p>

I will force you and your mother who gave you birth into exile. You will be exiled to<n id="1" /> a country where neither of you were born, and you will both die there.

You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Honor<n id="1" /> your father and your mother just as the <sc>Lordsc> your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he<n id="2" /> is about to give you.