8 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.
8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
8 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
8 "Don't have sex with your father's wife. That violates your father.
8 The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover; it is your father's nakedness.
8 "Do not have sexual relations with any of your father's wives, for this would violate your father.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 18:8
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Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts.
Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services.