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