Leviticus 18:8
Modern Translations
New International Version
"'Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.

New Living Translation
“Do not have sexual relations with any of your father’s wives, for this would violate your father.

English Standard Version
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

Berean Study Bible
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.

New American Standard Bible
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

NASB 1995
'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.

NASB 1977
‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

Amplified Bible
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

Christian Standard Bible
You are not to have sex with your father’s wife; she is your father’s family.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are not to have sex with your father's wife; it will shame your father.

Contemporary English Version
And don't disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives.

Good News Translation
Do not disgrace your father by having intercourse with any of his other wives.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never have sexual intercourse with your stepmother. She is related to you through your father.

International Standard Version
"You are not to have sexual relations with your father's wife. It's your own father's nakedness.

NET Bible
You must not have sexual intercourse with your father's wife; she is your father's nakedness.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

New King James Version
The nakedness of your father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness.

King James 2000 Bible
The nakedness of your father's wife shall you not uncover: it is your father's nakedness.

New Heart English Bible
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.

World English Bible
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.

American King James Version
The nakedness of your father's wife shall you not uncover: it is your father's nakedness.

American Standard Version
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

A Faithful Version
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife. It is your father's nakedness.

Darby Bible Translation
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

English Revised Version
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

Webster's Bible Translation
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The shame of thy fathers wife shalt thou not discouer: for it is thy fathers shame.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The nakednesse of thy fathers wife shalt thou not discouer: for it is thy fathers nakednesse.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thou shalt not vncouer ye preuytie of yi fathers wife, for it is yi fathers preuytie.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
The secrettes of thy fathers wife shalt thou not discouer, for they are thy fathers secrettes.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
You do not uncover the nakedness of the wife of your father; it [is] the nakedness of your father.

Young's Literal Translation
The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it is the nakedness of thy father.

Smith's Literal Translation
The nakedness of thy father's wife thou shalt not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You shall not expose the nakedness of your father’s wife; for it is the nakedness of your father.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Do not expose the nakedness of the wife of your father, for it is the nakedness of your father.

Lamsa Bible
You shall not approach your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife; it is thy father's nakedness.
















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