And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter,
or
his mother's daughter
Take her to be his wife, or commit lewdness with her, whether she
be his sister by both father and mother's side, or whether by one
only, either way she is his sister, and it is not lawful to marry
her, or lie with her, see ( Leviticus
18:9 ) : and see her nakedness, and she see his
nakedness;
which is not to be understood of an immodest view, exposing to
each other what should not be seen, and pleasing themselves wills
such obscene sights, but of the act of lying together, for so it
is afterwards explained by a phrase frequently used to express
that action by; and it denotes, as Aben Ezra observes, their
mutual consent and agreement in it: it [is] a wicked
thing;
and by no means to be done; it is a breach of a former law, it is
a scandalous and reproachful thing, and the word is sometimes
used for reproach, as in ( Proverbs
14:34 ) ; and they shall be cut off in the sight of
their people;
by death, either by the hand of the civil magistrate, or by the
hand of God, by the pestilence, as the Targum of Jonathan; Ben
Gersom interprets it, of their dying childless, as in some
following cases, ( Leviticus
20:20 Leviticus
20:21 ) ; he hath uncovered his sister's
nakedness;
or lay with her, which explains a preceding clause: he
shall bear his iniquity;
the punishment of it, and he alone, as Aben Ezra observes.