Leviticus 18:8

The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.

Cross-reference

Leviticus 20:11 prescribes the death penalty for this very offense of lying with one's father's wife, adding legal consequence.

Genesis 35:22 records Reuben's sin of lying with his father's concubine, a direct narrative violation of this law.

Genesis 49:4 records Jacob's curse on Reuben for defiling his father's bed, the same act prohibited here.

Deuteronomy 22:30 repeats this prohibition, reinforcing the command against taking one's father's wife.

Deuteronomy 27:20 pronounces a curse on anyone who lies with his father's wife, adding a covenantal sanction.

2 Samuel 16:21 shows Ahithophel advising Absalom to violate this command by taking David's concubines as a political statement.

2 Samuel 16:22 records Absalom actually committing this act, fulfilling the violation of the prohibition.

Ezekiel 22:10 lists this very sin among Jerusalem's abominations, showing its ongoing violation.

1 Corinthians 5:1 applies the same Levitical prohibition against relations with a father's wife to a case in the Corinthian church, calling it sexual immorality.

1 Chronicles 5:1 cites Reuben's sin with his father's wife as an example of the very act prohibited in Leviticus 18:8.

Amos 2:7 Related theme

Amos 2:7 condemns a man and his father having relations with the same woman, a related family sexual boundary violation.