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Negative commandment · Lo Ta’aseh #345 of 613

Not to have intimate relations with one's wife's sister

שלא לגלות ערוות אחות אישה

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The verse · Vayikra 18:18

וְאִשָּׁה אֶל־אֲחֹתָהּ לֹא תִקָּח לִצְרֹר לְגַלּוֹת עֶרְוָתָהּ עָלֶיהָ בְּחַיֶּיהָ

“Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, as her rival, and uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.”

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The Rambam’s words

Not to have intimate relations with one's wife's sister, as [Leviticus 18:18] states: "Do not take a woman as a wife together with her sister."

שלא לגלות ערוות אחות אישה, שנאמר "ואישה אל אחותה, לא תיקח" (ויקרא יח,יח).

Who & when

“And this warning (negative commandment) is practiced in every place and at all times.”

Where in the Mishneh Torah

Hilchot Forbidden Intercourse הלכות איסורי ביאה

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