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Leviticus 20

Lev. 20:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Anda thou shalt not uncover
galah (Hebrew #1540)
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
KJV usage: + advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, X plainly, publish, remove, reveal, X shamelessly, shew, X surely, tell, uncover.
Pronounce: gaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
the nakedness
`ervah (Hebrew #6172)
nudity, literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace, blemish)
KJV usage: nakedness, shame, unclean(-ness).
Pronounce: er-vaw'
Origin: from 6168
of thy mother’s
'em (Hebrew #517)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like 1)
KJV usage: dam, mother, X parting.
Pronounce: ame
Origin: a primitive word
sister
'achowth (Hebrew #269)
a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (an-)other, sister, together.
Pronounce: aw-khoth'
Origin: irregular feminine of 251
, nor of thy father’s
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
sister
'achowth (Hebrew #269)
a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (an-)other, sister, together.
Pronounce: aw-khoth'
Origin: irregular feminine of 251
: for he uncovereth
`arah (Hebrew #6168)
to be (causatively, make) bare; hence, to empty, pour out, demolish
KJV usage: leave destitute, discover, empty, make naked, pour (out), rase, spread self, uncover.
Pronounce: aw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
his near kin
sh'er (Hebrew #7607)
flesh (as swelling out), as living or for food; generally food of any kind; figuratively, kindred by blood
KJV usage: body, flesh, food, (near) kin(-sman, -swoman), near (nigh) (of kin).
Pronounce: sheh-ayr'
Origin: from 7604
: they shall bear
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
their iniquity
`avon (Hebrew #5771)
from 5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
KJV usage: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Pronounce: aw-vone'
Origin: or oavown (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 (7)) {aw-vone'}
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Lev. 18:12• 12The nakedness of thy father's sister shalt thou not uncover: she is thy father's near relation. (Lev. 18:12)
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Lev. 18:12,13‑30• 12The nakedness of thy father's sister shalt thou not uncover: she is thy father's near relation.
 13The nakedness of thy mother's sister shalt thou not uncover; for she is thy mother's near relation.
 14The nakedness of thy father's brother shalt thou not uncover; thou shalt not approach his wife: she is thine aunt.
 15The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law shalt thou not uncover: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
 16The nakedness of thy brother's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy brother's nakedness.
 17The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shalt thou not uncover; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, nor her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are her near relations: it is wickedness.
 18And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside her, during her life.
 19And thou shalt not approach a woman in the separation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness.
 20And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to become unclean with her.
 21And thou shalt not give of thy seed to let them pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.
 22And thou shalt not lie with mankind as one lieth with a woman: it is an abomination.
 23And thou shalt lie with no beast to become unclean therewith; and a woman shall not stand before a beast to lie down with it: it is confusion.
 24Make not yourselves unclean in any of these things; for in all these have the nations which I am casting out before you made themselves unclean.
 25And the land hath become unclean; and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants.
 26But *ye* shall observe my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of all these abominations: the home-born, and the stranger that sojourneth among you;
 27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land hath been made unclean);
 28that the land vomit you not out, when ye make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
 29For whoever committeth any of these abominations, … the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
 30And ye shall observe my charge, that ye commit not any of the abominable customs which were committed before you; and ye shall not make yourselves unclean therein: I am Jehovah your God. (Lev. 18:12,13‑30)
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Ex. 6:20• 20And Amram took Jochebed his aunt as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years. (Ex. 6:20)
uncovereth.
Lev. 18:6• 6No one shall approach to any that is his near relation, to uncover his nakedness: I am Jehovah. (Lev. 18:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, and of thy father’s sister shalt thou not uncover; for he hath laid naked his near relationb: they shall bear their iniquity.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "his own flesh."