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Leviticus 18:10

The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness. The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter. The reason assigned for prohibition in these cases is, that the parties are one's own flesh and blood.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    V. PRACTICAL HOLINESS IN DAILY LIFE 1. Different Unholy Relationships CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Separation and obedience (Leviticus 18:1)_ 2. Unholy relationships (Leviticus 18:6) 3. Vile and abominable pr...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE. After a general preface (Leviticus 18:6) the relationships are given in detail. The phrase uncover the nakedness is almost confined to Leviticus 17-20, Ezek., and Genesi...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The prohibition in the case of a daughter was probably omitted accidentally by a copyist from the beginning of this _v._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Laws dealing with various Moral Subjects These three chs. contain features common to two or all three of them, which are found nowhere else in the Pentateuch. Such are (1) a collection of laws combin...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PROHIBITED MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS 18:6-18 TEXT 18:6-18 6 None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover _their_ nakedness: I am Jehovah. 7 The nakedness of thy father, e...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LAW OF FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE, AND OF CHASTITY 3. Some of the unions here forbidden as incestuous were permitted among the nations of antiquity. The early Egyptians, e.g. permitted marriage wit...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE NAKEDNESS OF THY SON’S DAUGHTER. From this prohibition it is inferred that a man must not marry his own daughter. If a granddaughter, who is a degree further removed from him, is proscribed, how m...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עֶרְוַ֤ת בַּת ־בִּנְךָ֙ אֹ֣ו בַֽת ־בִּתְּךָ֔...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE LAW OF HOLINESS: CHASTITY Leviticus 18:1 Chapter S 18, 19, and 20, by a formal introduction Leviticus 18:1 and a formal closing, Leviticus 20:22 are indicated as a distinct section, very commonly...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    At this point in the enunciation of the laws of separation they assume a slightly altered character. So far, the fundamental matters of relationships to God have been the principal note. Now the habit...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs [is] thine own (f) nakedness. (f) They are her children whose shame you h...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These precepts, considered in a moral sense, carry with them conviction of their own propriety. And if explained spiritually, they serve to convey this idea, that the souls who are taken into covenant...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 18 keeps them from dishonouring themselves in the things which belong to nature itself-to what man ought to be in his natural relations, that he might not dishonour himself. Man ought not to d...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE NAKEDNESS OF THY SON'S DAUGHTER, OR OF THY DAUGHTER'S DAUGHTER,.... A man might not marry his granddaughter, whether a descendant of his son or of his daughter, nor any further off descending from...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs [is] thine own nakedness. Ver. 10. _For theirs is thine own nakedness._]...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [VNLAWFULL MARRIAGES.] 1 Vnlawfull Marriages. 19 Vnlawfull lusts. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, I am the LORD your God. 3 After...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The nakedness of thy son's daughter or of thy daughter's daughter, of the granddaughter, EVEN THEIR NAKEDNESS THOU SHALT NOT UNCOVER; FOR THEIRS IS THINE OWN NAKEDNESS, intercourse with them would be...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    FORBIDDING SEXUAL SINS (VV. 1-30) Chapter 17 has dealt with sin directly against God; now chapter 18 speaks of sin in relationship with other creatures, primarily humans, but also animals (v. 23). Mos...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    And consequently of all thy children and children's children, and all downwards; for they are a part of thyself, as coming out of thy loins, and out of thy wife, whose nakedness is thine own....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    LEVITICUS 20:1-27. This section sets before us, in a very remarkable manner, the personal sanctity and moral propriety which Jehovah looked for, on the part of those whom He had graciously introduced...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 18:10 nakedness H6172 sons H1121 daughter H1323 daughters H1323 daughter H1323 nakedness H6172 uncover H1540 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN FAMILIES (LEVITICUS 18:6). Leviticus 18:6 “None of you shall approach to any who are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.” Firstly the initial principle...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Relationship and walk of God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Fleshly lusts war against the soul and will certainly be the ruin of it, if God's mercy and grace prevent not. K...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 18:21. _Molech,_ or Moloch, was the chief idol of the Sabians, and of the Ammonites. 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 11:33. To this idol Solomon built a high place on mount Olivet. The form of the ido...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him._ CONSANGUINITY 1. God the institutor of marriage (Leviticus 18:6). 2. Faith in Christ not commanded in the law (Leviticus 18:5). 3. O...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:6 These laws prohibit sexual relations (APPROACH... TO UNCOVER NAKEDNESS), and therefore marriage, between people who are too closely related, either by blood (mother, s...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:1 The Call to Holiness. This section applies the principle of holiness (Leviticus 19:1) to various aspects of Israelite life. Chapte

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Incestuous Marriages: Domestic Purity SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 18:2.—Speak unto them and say, I am the Lord your God. Jehovah is the sole lawgiver, His word the one law to His people: ungodly cu...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART III. SECTION III. EXPOSITION MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This being the subject of the three following chapters (chapters 18-20), they naturally form a sequence to chapters 11-17, whic...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Here we find the term used over and over again, "For I am the Lord your God." So God wants a holy people. He tells them how they are to walk with them. "For I am the Lord your God", and actually layin...

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