Prohibition of Incestuous Relationships

⁶ None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

⁷ You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

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 not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.

¹¹ You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

¹² You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

¹³ You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.

¹⁴ You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.

¹⁵ You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

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.