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The nakedness of your father`s wife`s daughter, conceived by your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

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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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Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On Leviticus 18:11

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…

John Gill

John Gill

On Leviticus 18:11

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 …