Leviticus 18:14
Hebrew Text— Leviticus 18:14“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.
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If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.
But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Yahweh says, “Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more will a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on David’s throne, and ruling in Judah.”
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”
There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.
For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’