Leviticus 18:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

Leviticus 18:8 —

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Cross-References

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.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
Deuteronomy 22:30
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy 27:20
Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Amos 2:7
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

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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 the…