Then Abimelech called Abraham in and said to him, “What have you done to us? How did I sin against you that you have brought such enormous guilt on me and on my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.”(A)

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Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter,(A) and such a thing should not be done.

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You are not to have sexual intercourse with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s,(A) whether born at home or born elsewhere. You are not to have sex with her.

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17 If a man marries his sister,(A) whether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, and they have sexual relations,[a](B) it is a disgrace.(C) They are to be cut off publicly from their people. He has had sexual intercourse with his sister; he will bear his iniquity.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:17 Lit and he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness

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