ESV Reformation Study Bible – Lev 18:8
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Lev 18:8

18:8 your father’s wife. Not one’s own mother (cf. v. 7), but the father’s second wife (cf. 1 Cor. 5:1). The phrase “it is your father’s nakedness” recalls the teaching in Gen. 2:24 that the married couple “become one flesh.”