Lev 18:15 | KingComments | STEP | The acts that are described in are acts of incest. They run counter to God’s original purpose with marriage and sexuality. This should be self-evident to God’s people. You assume them in the world and not in the people of God. That God addresses all these warnings to His people shows how necessary it is, because His people are also capable of these sins. God shows evil in its most horrible forms. He knows better than man himself to what he can degrade. God here forbids sexual intercourse between blood relatives. The Hebrew words for ‘nakedness’ and ‘uncover’ are euphemisms, that is, softened or covered terms, for sexual intercourse. Here it concerns illicit sexual intercourse or fornication ( ). Such relations are unnatural. The prohibition starts with the general ban on sexual intercourse with a blood relative. Sexual intercourse is forbidden here with: 1. mother; 2. stepmother; 3. half-sister (same father or mother); 4. grandchild; 5. half-sister (from the father’s second marriage); 6. aunt, the sister of father or mother; 7. aunt, the wife of the father’s brother; 8. daughter-in-law; 9. sister-in-law.

‏ Leviticus 18:15

Incest

The acts that are described in Lev 18:6-23 are acts of incest. They run counter to God’s original purpose with marriage and sexuality. This should be self-evident to God’s people. You assume them in the world and not in the people of God. That God addresses all these warnings to His people shows how necessary it is, because His people are also capable of these sins. God shows evil in its most horrible forms. He knows better than man himself to what he can degrade.

God here forbids sexual intercourse between blood relatives. The Hebrew words for ‘nakedness’ and ‘uncover’ are euphemisms, that is, softened or covered terms, for sexual intercourse. Here it concerns illicit sexual intercourse or fornication (Eze 16:36 ; Eze 23:18). Such relations are unnatural.

The prohibition starts with the general ban on sexual intercourse with a blood relative. Sexual intercourse is forbidden here with:

1. mother;

2. stepmother;

3. half-sister (same father or mother);

4. grandchild;

5. half-sister (from the father’s second marriage);

6. aunt, the sister of father or mother;

7. aunt, the wife of the father’s brother;

8. daughter-in-law;

9. sister-in-law.