16 You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother. 17 You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved. 18 You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
Leviticus 18:16–18
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Leviticus 18:8–10
8 You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father. 9 You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere. 10 You must…
Deuteronomy 22:29–30
29 then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives. 30 A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishono…
Leviticus 20:18–20
18 If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people. 19 You must not have sexual relations with the s…
Leviticus 20:10–12
10 If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death. 11 If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death;… 12 …
Leviticus 18:22–24
22 You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination. 23 You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion. 24 Do not defile yourselves by any of the…
Book of Jubilees 33:9–11
9 And Jacob did not approach her again because Reuben had defiled her. And as for any man who uncovers his father's skirt his deed is wicked exceedingly, for he is abominable before the Lord. (JUB) 10 For this reason it is written and ordained on the heavenly tablets tha… (JUB)
Exodus 20:13–15
13 You shall not murder. 14 You shall not commit adultery. 15 You shall not steal.
Deuteronomy 5:17–19
17 You shall not murder. 18 You shall not commit adultery. 19 You shall not steal.
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