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Leviticus 18:14

in Leviticus 18

You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.

KJV

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.

This verse in Leviticus 18

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her

on Leviticus 18:14-16

These three are relations by marriage, the uncle's wife, the son's wife and the brother's wife. John the Baptist applies verse 16 to Herod at Mark 6:18, and it costs him his head.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother,....

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • עֶרְוַ֥ת[the] nakedness of

    ʾervatH6172 →54 times

  • אֲחִֽי־[the] brother of

    ʾachi-H251 →630 times

  • אָבִ֖יךָfather your

    ʾavikhaH1 →1212 times

  • לֹ֣אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תְגַלֵּ֑הyou will uncover

    tegalehH1540 →186 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אִשְׁתּוֹ֙wife his

    ʾishtoH802 →781 times

  • לֹ֣אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תִקְרָ֔בyou will draw near

    tikravH7126 →280 times

  • דֹּדָֽתְךָ֖[is] aunt your

    dodatekhaH1733 →

  • הִֽוא׃ סshe

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 20:20

    If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 109:13

      May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

    • Luke 23:29

      Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’

    • Jeremiah 22:30

      This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or…

    • Luke 1:25

      “The Lord has done this for me. In these days He has shown me favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”

    • Job 18:19

      He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.