“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.” -Leviticus 18:16 Let’s review a couple of terms. First, remember that the phrase “one’s nakedness” in the Bible is possessive. It refers to those individuals a man has sexual rights to. For example, my father’s nakedness is his wife or […]

“‘None of you is to approach anyone who is a close relative in order to have sexual relations; I am Adonai.”-Leviticus 18:1 I want to introduce two new terms that are pertinent to our discussion on God’s commands concerning sexual behavior. The two terms are “consanguineal” and “affinal”. Here are the dictionary definitions: consanguineous: having […]

“The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.“-Leviticus 18:7 I want to take a close look at and define two terms we’ll find appearing quite frequently in our Bibles. They are “uncover nakedness” and “his own flesh”. “Uncovering […]

When studying the Scriptures as a whole, we’ll find that human sexuality plays quite a central role in the Bible. This makes sense because sex is how physical life is brought into this world and from the earliest chapters of Genesis we see that God takes a positive view of sex and procreation. “As for […]

Today we begin Leviticus Chapter 18. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. “Adonai said to Moshe, “Speak to the people of Israel; tell them, ‘I am Adonai your God. You are not to engage in the activities found in the land of Egypt, where you used to live; and you are […]