“The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.”
Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father. The father's wife — the stepmother or a second wife of the father — is also protected by the incest prohibition. The prohibition is framed as the protection of the father's dignity: the sexual relationship with the father's wife is a violation of the father's relational and sexual rights. 1 Corinthians 5:1 records that someone in the Corinthian church was having a relationship with his father's wife — the violation of Leviticus 18:8 that Paul calls sexual immorality of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate.
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