“And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.”
If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible. The penalty for sibling incest (Leviticus 18:9) — public removal from the people — is a disgrace, a category below the most severe penalties but still a covenant-level consequence. The public removal communicates the community's rejection of the violation: the sibling incest that is committed in private is publicly renounced through the public removal from the people.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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