Levitico 18:13

13 Non iscoprir le vergogne della sorella di tua madre; perciocchè ell’è la carne di tua madre.

Levitico 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.

Levitico 18:13 In-Context

11 Non iscoprir le vergogne della figliuola della moglie di tuo padre, generata da tuo padre. Ell’è tua sorella.

12 Non iscoprir le vergogne della sorella di tuo padre. Ell’è la carne di tuo padre.

13 Non iscoprir le vergogne della sorella di tua madre; perciocchè ell’è la carne di tua madre.

14 Non iscoprir le vergogne del fratello di tuo padre; non accostarti alla sua moglie; ell’è tua zia.

15 Non iscoprir le vergogne della tua nuora; ell’è moglie del tuo figliuolo; non iscoprir le sue vergogne.