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Leviticus 18:17-19
Lexham English Bible
Leviticus 18:17-19
Lexham English Bible
17 You must not expose the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, or her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter; you must not take her as wife[a] to expose her nakedness; they are close relatives[b]—that is wickedness. 18 And you must not take as wife[c] a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her during[d] her life.
19 “‘And you must not have sex with[e] a woman to expose her nakedness during[f] her menstrual uncleanness.
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- Leviticus 18:17 The verb לקח is used to speak of marrying (“taking a wife”)
- Leviticus 18:17 Literally “flesh”; see vv. 6, 12, 13
- Leviticus 18:18 The verb לקח is used to speak of marrying (“taking a wife”)
- Leviticus 18:18 Literally “in”
- Leviticus 18:19 Literally “approach”
- Leviticus 18:19 Literally “in”
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