Bible Verses About Incest
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for incest, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 45,003 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 5:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Incest
1 Corinthians 5:11,767 votes
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
Genesis 20:121,762 votes
And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Leviticus 18:61,758 votes
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 18:6-181,663 votes
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 27:201,545 votes
Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:221,476 votes
Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Genesis 35:221,421 votes
And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Deuteronomy 27:231,354 votes
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Leviticus 18:81,298 votes
The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.
Exodus 6:201,244 votes
And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
Genesis 49:41,146 votes
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Leviticus 20:171,119 votes
And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
Deuteronomy 22:301,010 votes
A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.
Leviticus 20:11978 votes
And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 18:17974 votes
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Leviticus 18:7965 votes
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 18:10941 votes
The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.
Genesis 19:1-38910 votes
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
Leviticus 20:21889 votes
And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
Leviticus 18:18855 votes
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Leviticus 18:9815 votes
The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
Amos 2:7813 votes
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
Leviticus 18:12767 votes
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman.
Mark 6:17767 votes
For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for he had married her.
2 Samuel 16:21740 votes
And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
What does the Bible say about incest?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 5:1 on the subject of incest. Across 45,003 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 20:12, Leviticus 18:6, Leviticus 18:6-18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.