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A Puzzling Repetition
Commentators from Ellicott to Gill immediately notice that this verse seems to repeat the prohibition against relations with a half-sister already stated in verse 9. They propose various solutions, from a possible scribal error to this being an emphatic restatement or a clarification for a very specific family situation, highlighting the careful work required to understand the text's structure.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Bishop
Your father’s wife’s daughter. —If this clause stood alone, it would denote the daughter of a man’s stepmother by another or previ…
17th Century
Pastor
The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter
Either the daughter of his father by another wife, which seems to be …