Ewww. Gross OUT! What on earth is WRONG with these people?!!!
Incest couple John and Jenny Deaves
But the strange thing is that incest was viewed differently in Biblical times. Yet we revere the Bible today as setting our life commandments, telling us how we should live.
Leviticus 18 and 20 outline the limits of marriage by detailing those family members one cannot marry (or literally, have sexual relations with). In these lists the distinction needs to be made between blood-relatives where sex is improper, and other relations where one is infringing on the procreative property rites of another.
It is interesting to note that no reference is made to one’s own daughter. We might assume that she was also “off limits,” but because her procreative potential belonged to her father, the law could not legislate against her father “taking” her.
The accompanying diagram illustrates who is and who is not a potential sexual partner according to the Israelite codes of incest. Makes you think, doesn’t it?
