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You must not have sexual relations with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter,[a] whether she is born in the same household or born outside it;[b] you must not have sexual relations with either of them.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 18:9 tn Heb “the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother.”
  2. Leviticus 18:9 tn Heb “born of house or born of outside.” CEV interprets as “whether you grew up together or not” (cf. also TEV, NLT).
  3. Leviticus 18:9 tc Several medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, and Syriac have “her nakedness” rather than “their nakedness,” thus agreeing with singular “sister” at the beginning of the verse.tn For a smooth English translation “either of” was added.