Leviticus 18:12 BSB

Leviticus 18:12

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

BSB

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ASV

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman.

KJV

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Thy father’s sister - The instance of Amram and Jochebed Exo 6:20 seems to show that marriage with an aunt was not considered wrong by the Israelites when they were in Egypt.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עֶרְוַ֥ת	'er.Vat	[the] nakedness of	H6172 →
אֲחוֹת־	'a.chot-	[the] sister of	H269 →
אָבִ֖יךָ	'a.Vi.kha	father your	H1 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תְגַלֵּ֑ה	te.ga.Leh	you will uncover	H1540 →
שְׁאֵ֥ר	she.'Er	[is] a relative of	H7607 →
אָבִ֖יךָ	'a.Vi.kha	father your	H1 →
הִֽוא׃ ס	hi'	she	H1931 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 6:20
And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
leads to
- Numbers 26:59
  and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
- Exodus 2:1–2
  Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,
- Exodus 6:16
  These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
- Exodus 6:18
  The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.
Through
Leviticus 20:19
You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.
leads to
- Leviticus 18:6
  None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 18:12–30
  You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
- Exodus 6:20
  And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

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