Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.
`The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou dost not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter thou dost not take to uncover her nakedness; they are her relations; it is wickedness.
The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shalt thou not uncover; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, nor her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are her near relations: it is wickedness.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLeviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
- Author
- Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
- Date
- Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)