Incest: Defined and Forbidden

Scripture references

• Lev 18:6–18 None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual
• Lev 20:11, 12, 17, 19–21 If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his
• Deu 22:30 A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his
• Deu 27:20–23 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated
• Eze 22:11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly
• 1Ch 5:1 These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the