⁸ The nakedness of your ^(A)father’s wife you shall not uncover; it is your father’s nakedness.

Immorality Defiles the Church

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even ^[a]named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s ^(A)wife!

¹¹ The man who lies with his ^(A)father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

^20 (A)‘Cursed is the one who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s bed.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

^30 (A)“A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor ^(B)uncover his father’s bed.

¹⁰ In you men ^(A)uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are ^(B)set apart during their impurity.

²¹ And Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s ^(A)concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you ^(B)are abhorred by your father. Then ^(C)the hands of all who are with you will be strong.” ²² So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines ^(D)in the sight of all Israel.

²² And it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and ^(A)lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard about it.

Jacob’s Twelve Sons