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⁶No man shall approach her who is a close blood-relative to him, so as to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: I am the Lord your God. ³You shall not act according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you have lived; nor shall you behave according to the habit of the region of Canaan, into which I will lead you; neither shall you walk in their ordinances. ⁴You shall accomplish my judgments, and you shall observe my precepts, and you shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God. ⁵Keep my laws and judgments; when a man does these, he shall live by them. I am the Lord. ⁶No man shall approach her who is a close blood-relative to him, so as to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.

¹¹For by me, your days will be multiplied and years of life will be added to you.

¹⁷You shall not uncover the nakedness of your wife and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, so as to uncover her dishonor; for they are her flesh, and such sexual intercourse is incest.

³Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb.

⁹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, whether from father or from mother, whether she was born at home or abroad.

¹⁰You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter, or your daughter’s daughter; for it is your own nakedness.

¹⁵You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law, for she is your son’s wife; neither shall you expose her dishonor.

²⁰Now Amram took as a wife Jochebed, his paternal aunt, who bore for him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were one hundred and thirty-seven.

¹²Yet, in another way, she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her as a wife.

¹⁶You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; for it is the nakedness of your brother.

³⁰No man shall take his father’s wife, nor remove her covering.”

¹⁶For the Lord himself, with a command and with the voice of an Archangel and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven. And the dead, who are in Christ, shall rise up first. ¹⁷Next, we who are alive, who are remaining, shall be taken up quickly together with them into the clouds to meet Christ in the air. And in this way, we shall be with the Lord always. ¹⁸Therefore, console one another with these words.

²²Then Eleazar died, and had no sons, but only daughters. And so the sons of Kish, their brothers, married them.

⁸You shall not expose the nakedness of your father’s wife; for it is the nakedness of your father.

¹¹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, whom she bore to your father, and who is your sister.

¹Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father.

¹²You shall not expose the nakedness of your father’s sister; for she is the flesh of your father. ¹³You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, because she is the flesh of your mother. ¹⁴You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, nor shall you approach his wife, who is joined to you by affinity.

²⁸And God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

²⁹Then Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai. And the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

⁹he went to Ishmael, and he took as a wife, beside those he had before, Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.

¹Now when David was living in his house, he said to the prophet Nathan: “Behold, I live in a house of cedar. But the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under tent skins.” ²And Nathan said to David: “Do all that is in your heart. For God is with you.” ³And yet, that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying: ⁴“Go, and speak to my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build a house for me as a dwelling place. ⁵For I have not stayed in a house from the time when I led out Israel, even to this day. Instead, I have been continually changing places, in a tabernacle and tent, ⁶dwelling with all of Israel. When did I ever speak to any one at all, among the judges of Israel whom I placed in charge so that they might pasture my people, saying: ‘Why have you not built a house of cedar for me?’