13 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.
13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's relative.
13 "Don't have sex with your mother's sister; she is your aunt, closely related to your mother.
13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is near of kin to your mother.
13 "Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's close relative.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 18:13
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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.