11 " 'Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
11 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister.
11 "Don't have sex with the daughter of your father's wife born to your father. She is your sister.
11 The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father--she is your sister--you shall not uncover her nakedness.
11 "Do not have sexual relations with your stepsister, the daughter of any of your father's wives, for she is your sister.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 18:11
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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.