# Do not uncover the nakedness of your father's wives

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]])

# your father's wives

Sometimes men had more than one wife. God did not allow a son to have sexual intercourse with any woman married to his father.

# it is your father's nakedness

"you disgrace your father" or "you shame your father"