Cross references

Leviticus 18:8

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.

Leviticus 18:8 BSB

Leviticus 18:8 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Leviticus 20:11 (6 votes) and Deuteronomy 22:30 (5 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 35 to 1 Corinthians 5.

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Which verses does Leviticus 18:8 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

  2. A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.

  3. ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

  4. It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

  5. Amos 2:74 votes

    They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

  6. Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.

  7. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

  8. Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.” So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

  9. In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.

Which verses point to Leviticus 18:8?

The 10 strongest of 12.