“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.”
Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt. The uncle's wife — the aunt by marriage — is protected by the incest prohibition framed as the protection of the uncle's honor. The prohibition on the uncle's wife communicates that the incest boundary extends to spouses of family members, not only to blood relatives. The marriage relationship creates the same relational boundary as the blood relationship.
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