What the Bible says about

Incest

32 references · Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · tap any verse for study tools

“None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.”
Leviticus 18:6-18 BSB
“If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.”
Leviticus 20:11 BSB
“If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.”
Leviticus 20:12 BSB
“If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.”
Leviticus 20:17 BSB
“You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.”
Leviticus 20:19-21 BSB
“A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.”
Deuteronomy 22:30 BSB
“‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’”
Deuteronomy 27:20-23 BSB
“One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.”
Ezekiel 22:11 BSB
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