Leviticus 18:9

_THE NAKEDNESS OF THY SISTER, THE DAUGHTER OF THY FATHER, OR DAUGHTER OF THY MOTHER, WHETHER SHE BE BORN AT HOME, OR BORN ABROAD, EVEN THEIR NAKEDNESS THOU SHALT NOT UNCOVER._ The nakedness of thy sister ... - i:e., the child of either of thy parents, whether thy full sister or a stepsister, born in the same or in another family. The circumstantial minuteness in relation to her birth, as sprung from the same parentage or a second marriage, in wedlock or out of wedlock, was designed to remove all doubt as to the unlawfullness of a connection which, through the corruptions of pagan antiquity, had become very common (Genesis 20:12) (Diodorus, 'Hist.,' 1:, 27), and in Egypt was legalized. Pausanias relates that Ptolemy Philadelphus married his sister ('Attica,' 1:, 7; cf. Philo, 'De Spec. Legg.,' p. 180; Wilkinson's 'Ancient Egypt.,' vol. 2:, p. 63). Jerome affirms that the p

THY SISTER - What was here spoken of was the distinguishing offence of the Egyptians....

PART III. SECTION III. EXPOSITION MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This being the subject of the three following chapters (chapters 18-20), they naturally form a sequence to chapters 11-17, which have dealt with ceremonial uncleanness and its purification. It is a remarkable thing that, except by implication in connection with the sin offerings and the trespass offerings and the ceremonies of the Day of Atonement, there has not yet been a single moral precept, as such, in the Book of Leviticus, and there has been very little recognition of sin as distinct from pollution. All has been ceremonial. But the ceremonial is typical of the moral, and from the consideration of ceremonial uncleanness and its remedy, we now proceed to the consideration of moral uncleanness and its penalty. It is to be noticed

THE NAKEDNESS OF THY SISTER,.... To lie with one in so near a relation is exceeding criminal, and for which the law curses a man, Deuteronomy 27:22; and to marry her is not lawful; for though it was necessary for the propagation of mankind that a man should marry his sister, for who else could Cain and Abel marry? yet afterwards, when there was an increase of mankind, and there were people enough remote from each other, it became unlawful for persons in such near ties of consanguinity to marry with each other; though the Egyptians did, in imitation of Isis and Osiris e, and so the Persians, following the example of Cambyses f: THE DAUGHTER OF THY FATHER, OR THE DAUGHTER OF THY MOTHER; whether she is a sister both by father and mother's side, or whether only by the fathers side and not the mother's, as Sarah was to Abraham,...

V. PRACTICAL HOLINESS IN DAILY LIFE 1. Different Unholy Relationships CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Separation and obedience (Leviticus 18:1)_ 2. Unholy relationships (Leviticus 18:6) 3. Vile and abominable practices (Leviticus 18:19) 4. Judgment threatened (Leviticus 18:24) This section of Leviticus contains the words of Jehovah addressed to His people, whom He had redeemed and in whose midst He dwelt. They are to be a holy people. About thirty times in this section we find the solemn word “I am Jehovah. Ye shall be holy: for I, Jehovah your God, am holy.” This is Jehovah's cal

FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE. After a general preface (Leviticus 18:6) the relationships are given in detail. The phrase uncover the nakedness is almost confined to Leviticus 17-20, Ezek., and Genesis 9. No penalties or consequences are given, though reasons are sometimes added (_e.g._ Leviticus 18:14; Leviticus 18:16 f.). Two special cases should be noticed; prohibition of marriage with a father's wife (Leviticus 18:8), which has often been familiar in Oriental royal families (_cf._ 1 Kings 2:22), and of levirate marriages ...

SISTER. See Genesis 20:12; 2 Samuel 13:12; 2 Samuel 16:20....

Laws dealing with various Moral Subjects These three chs. contain features common to two or all three of them, which are found nowhere else in the Pentateuch. Such are (1) a collection of laws combined with a hortatory introduction and summary (Leviticus 18:1-5; Leviticus 18:24-30; Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 19:37; Leviticus 20:1-8; Leviticus 20:22-26), (2) the prohibition of magic ...

PROHIBITED MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS 18:6-18 TEXT 18:6-18 6 None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover _their_ nakedness: I am Jehovah. 7 The nakedness of thy father, even the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover; it is thy father's nakedness. 9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or the daughter of thy mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. 10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness. 11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 12 Thou shalt not uncover the nake...

LAW OF FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE, AND OF CHASTITY 3. Some of the unions here forbidden as incestuous were permitted among the nations of antiquity. The early Egyptians, e.g. permitted marriage with a full sister. Abraham married his half-sister (Genesis 20:12), a practice here forbidden (Leviticus 18:9; Leviticus 18:11). 6. UNCOVER _their_ NAKEDNESS] i.e. marry....