Leviticus 18:13

13 Gij zult de schaamte van de zuster uwer moeder niet ontdekken; want zij is uwer moeder nabestaande.

Leviticus 18:13 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 18:13

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister,
&c.] Which is the same relation as before, an aunt by the mother's side; wherefore, if such a marriage was unlawful, this must also, and for the same reason: for she [is] thy mother's near kinswoman;
the same phraseology is used here as in the preceding verse; (See Gill on Leviticus 18:12); and by the same rule a woman might not marry her uncle, whether by father or mother's side, the relation being the same, and this reaches to great-uncle and great-aunt; instances of women marrying their uncles, and men their aunts, among the Heathens, have been given, as among the Persians and Lacedaemonians by Herodotus ^F12, and among the Romans by Tacitus ^F13, but were, in his time, new things with the latter.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Erato, sive, l. 6. c. 71. Polymnia, sive, l. 7. c. 224, 239.
F13 Annal. l. 12. c. 5, 6, 7.

Leviticus 18:13 In-Context

11 De schaamte van de dochter der huisvrouw uws vaders, die uw vader geboren is (zij is uw zuster), haar schaamte zult gij niet ontdekken.

12 Gij zult de schaamte van de zuster uws vaders niet ontdekken; zij is uws vaders nabestaande.

13 Gij zult de schaamte van de zuster uwer moeder niet ontdekken; want zij is uwer moeder nabestaande.

14 Gij zult de schaamte van den broeder uws vaders niet ontdekken; tot zijn huisvrouw zult gij niet naderen; zij is uw moei.

15 Gij zult de schaamte uwer schoondochter niet ontdekken; zij is uws zoons huisvrouw; gij zult haar schaamte niet ontdekken.