Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 18:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
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Quick Meaning
This verse states the general prohibition against sexual access to close kin.
Read It With
- Leviticus 18:6-18
Place Leviticus 18:6 inside 18:6-18. This verse states the general prohibition against sexual access to close kin. Its surrounding procedure or case makes the larger point: The repeated command not to uncover nakedness maps mother, father's wife, sisters, grandchildren, aunts, daughters-in-law, sisters-in-law, a woman and her daughter or granddaughter, and two sisters during one lifetime.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The unit needs this detail before it can reach its next action or distinction: this verse states the general prohibition against sexual access to close kin.
What Remains True
States the general prohibition against sexual access to close kin. Within Leviticus 18:6-18, this contributes to the larger claim that the repeated command not to uncover nakedness maps mother, father's wife, sisters, grandchildren, aunts, daughters-in-law, sisters-in-law, a woman and her daughter or granddaughter, and two sisters during one lifetime.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 18:6, keep the verse inside Leviticus 18:6-18. Hold this boundary: The male-addressed list restricts power but does not narrate women's consent; modern application must make consent and safeguarding explicit. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 18:6-18 — Kinship boundaries restrict a male household head's sexual accessSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 18:6-18, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 18:6-18
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NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
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Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 18:6-18
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