Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 20:17

17 And if a man shall take his sister, his fathers daughter, or his mothers daughter, and see her nakedness , and she see his nakedness, it is a wicked thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people : he hath uncovered his sisters nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity.

Seeing is here understood, either 1. properly, and so God would cut off the occasions of further filthiness. Or rather 2. improperly for touching her or lying with her; for 1. the sence of seeing is o[illegible: 1+ letters]t put for other sences, as for hearing, Ger▪ 42. 1. compared with Act. 7. 12. Exod. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. 18. Rev. 1. 12. and for touching, as Ioh. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. 25, 29. 2. that act is expressed by words parallel to this of seeing, as by [illegible: 1 word] or discovering, and by knowing, Gen. 4. 1. 3. so it is directly explained▪ in the following words, [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] uncovered [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] ▪ which manifestly signifies lying with her. [illegible: 1+ letters]. it is not probable that an equal punishment [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] dest sight, and to the highest act of filthiness. 5. nor seems there to be any reason why this crime should be restrained to this rather than to any other relations, when it was as great yea a greater crime in some other relations.

(i. e.) Publickly, for the terrour and caution of others.

Marginal references: chap. 18. 9; Deut. 27. 23.