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None of you shall approach to any who are close relatives to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I am Yahweh.
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The Prohibition of Incest
Commentators agree that this verse introduces a series of laws forbidding incest. The phrase "approach to... uncover their nakedness" is a biblical euphemism for sexual intercourse. This prohibition applies to close relatives, both by blood (consanguinity) and by marriage (affinity).
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Near of kin — The term was evidently used to denote only those who came within certain limits of consanguinity, together with those who by a…
19th Century
Anglican
None of you shall approach. —Literally, man, man, you shall not approach. It is part of the phrase used in Leviticus 17:3…
16th Century
Protestant
None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin. This term does not include all female relations, for first cousins on the father’s o…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him F20 , &c.] Or to all "the rest of his flesh", whi…
