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# Do not uncover the nakedness of your father's wives
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Here the idiom "uncover the nakedness" of someone means "have sexual relations" with someone. See how you translated this idiom in [Leviticus 18:6](../18/06.md). Alternate translation: "Do not have sexual relations with your father's wives" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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# your father's wives
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Sometimes men had more than one wife. God did not allow a son to have sexual intercourse with any woman married to his father.
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# it is your father's nakedness
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"you disgrace your father" or "you shame your father"
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