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I will also add that to uncover your father's nakedness does not mean to see him without cloths, but to have sex with his wife.
Originally posted by SecretKnowledge
reply to post by UnifiedSerenity
I will also add that to uncover your father's nakedness does not mean to see him without cloths, but to have sex with his wife.
err, no.
in what society is that statement correct?
Certainly none that i know of. To uncover your father's nakedness means exactly that. To see him in the raw.
And to have sex with his wife is called adultery.
Well at least thats what it is in my world, which is the real one.
"'Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.
New Living Translation (©2007) "Do not have sexual relations with any of your father's wives, for this would violate your father.
English Standard Version (©2001) You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.
New American Standard Bible (©1995) 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009) You are not to have sex with your father's wife; it will shame your father.
International Standard Version (©2012) "You are not to have sexual relations with your father's wife. It's your own father's nakedness.
NET Bible (©2006) You must not have sexual intercourse with your father's wife; she is your father's nakedness.
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995) Never have sexual intercourse with your stepmother. She is related to you through your father. K
ing James 2000 Bible (©2003) The nakedness of your father's wife shall you not uncover: it is your father's nakedness.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
18:1-30 Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts. - Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services.
Cross References 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
Leviticus 20:11 And the man that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be on them.
Deuteronomy 22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy 27:20 Cursed be he that lies with his father's wife; because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Ezekiel 22:10 In you have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in you have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.