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Leviticus 18:6

Leviticus chapter 18 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Jehovah.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Jehovah.

Context

v.5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

v.6This passage

v.7The nakedness of thy father, even the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Leviticus 20:11

    And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

  • Leviticus 20:17

    And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

  • Leviticus 18:7

    The nakedness of thy father, even the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.