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15 You must not expose your daughter-in-law’s nakedness; she is your son’s wife; you must not expose her nakedness. 16 You must not expose the nakedness of your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness. 17 You must not expose the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, or her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter; you must not take her as wife[a] to expose her nakedness; they are close relatives[b]—that is wickedness.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 18:17 The verb לקח is used to speak of marrying (“taking a wife”)
  2. Leviticus 18:17 Literally “flesh”; see vv. 6, 12, 13