Leviticus 18:5-7

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⁵So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which, if a person keeps them, he shall live; I am the Lord.^(A)

⁶‘^[a]No one shall approach any blood relative of his ^[b]to uncover nakedness (have intimate relations). I am the Lord. ⁷You shall not uncover the ^[c]nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

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Footnotes

Leviticus 18:6 This passage (vv 6-18) states incestuous prohibitions.
Leviticus 18:6 This Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations occurs in each verse in the passage.
Leviticus 18:7 The father’s nakedness is a reference to his wife in her role as his sexual partner, i.e. the nakedness that belongs to him alone by virtue of their marriage (cf 1 Cor 7:4). Otherwise, the literal meaning would refer to intimate relations with the father himself, including homosexuality. The text itself states that this is not the meaning, especially in 20:11a (The man who lies...has uncovered his father’s nakedness).