Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 18:6

6 None of you shall approach ▪ to any that is near of kin to him , to uncover their nakedness : I am the LORD.

Heb. No man. For though the women also be bound by this law, yet the men alone are mentioned▪ both because they are most active in the choice of their Yoke-fellows▪ and therefore most likely to transgress these laws, and because they having authority over the women could have the greater influence upon them by their power, counsel, or example to oblige them either to the observation or violation, of them.

This word signifies the conjugal act here, as it doth Gen. 20. 4. Isa. 8. 3. but because it is ambiguous in it self it is so limited and explained in the end of the verse.

This is the general rule, which is particularly expounded and applied in the following instances. And these laws are so just and reasonable, that although the barbarous nations did allow of such incestuous marriages, yet wiser and civil heathens by the meer light of nature condemned them, as may be seen in Suetonius, Tacitus, Catullus▪ and others.

(i. e.) Their secret parts, so called to put us in mind of the fall of our first Parents, whose first sence and shame of their nakedness had its rise from thence. This phrase notes the same thing with knowing, Gen. 4. 1. and with discovering ones skirt, Deut. 22. 30. and 27. 20.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] ▪ der of his [illegible: 1 word].