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Leviticus 18:8-10
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Leviticus 18:8-10
New English Translation
8 You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.[a] 9 You must not have sexual relations with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter,[b] whether she is born in the same household or born outside it;[c] you must not have sexual relations with either of them.[d] 10 You must not expose the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual relations with them, because they are your own nakedness.[e]
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- Leviticus 18:8 tn Heb “the nakedness of your father she is.” See the note on v. 7 above. This law refers to another wife of the man’s father, who is not that man’s mother. The laws in the Pentateuch sometimes assume the possibility that a man may have more than one wife (cf., e.g., Deut 21:15-17).
- Leviticus 18:9 tn Heb “the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother.”
- Leviticus 18:9 tn Heb “born of house or born of outside.” CEV interprets as “whether you grew up together or not” (cf. also TEV, NLT).
- Leviticus 18:9 tc Several medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, and Syriac have “her nakedness” rather than “their nakedness,” thus agreeing with singular “sister” at the beginning of the verse.tn For a smooth English translation “either of” was added.
- Leviticus 18:10 sn That is, to have sexual relations with one’s granddaughter would be like openly exposing one’s own shameful nakedness (see the note on v. 7 above).
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