12Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-18)These laws relate to the seventh commandment, and, no doubt, are obligatory on us under the gospel, for they are consonant to the very light and law of nature: one of the articles, that of a man’s having his father’s wife, the apostle speaks of as a sin not so much as named among the Gentiles , 1 Cor. 5:1. Though some of the incests here forbidden were practised by some particular persons among th…
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