# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1878_S36
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your father. This reference cannot be mistaken all the more, since the same words recur in both passages. If anyone wished to object to this that the reference of the words "his flesh" to the preceding "father" (Leviticus 20:19) is inadmissible, because the mother, named before the father, is not expressly taken into account, though she evidently must also come into consideration here, the reply would be that precisely because of the evident reference to Leviticus 18:12 the express mention of the mother and her sister was no longer necessary; for there, after the provision "your father's sister is your father's flesh," the next verse immediately adds: "Your mother's sister is your mother's flesh." If one considers further that it had already been forbidden earlier, in Leviticus 18:7, to uncover the nakedness of father and mother, it follows that in Leviticus 20:19 the mention of the one party fully sufficed to recall the other party, the mother, as included with him.

And finally: if our Lutheran fathers were to say that one can prove nothing by the general rule alone, then one might at most say that they understood the words "flesh's flesh" in a generalized sense. But now they say: the general rule suffices for judging the practical questions; but it would not suffice, indeed it would be rather useless, if "flesh's flesh" is not understood as it is explained above in the citations from Spener, Dannhauer, the Leipzig Faculty and V. E. Löscher.

With the passages Leviticus 25:49: "Or his uncle or his uncle's son (may redeem him), or any other nearest blood relation of his family" = אוֹ־מִשְּׁאֵר בְּשָׂרוֹ מִמִּשְׁפַּחְתּוֹ — and Numbers 27:11: "If he has no uncles, you shall give it to his nearest friends who belong to him in his family" = לִשְׁאֵרוֹ הַקָּרֹב אֵלָיו מִמִּשְׁפַּחְתּוֹ — one must not operate in order to prove that in Leviticus 18:6 the שְׁאֵר בְּשָׂרוֹ is likewise merely equivalent to "flesh" or "nearest relative." For in the former passages, it was said, the scope is an entirely different one from that in the latter. In Leviticus 18:6 the enumeration of the degrees is the scope; there the genus "flesh's flesh" is given; whereas in Leviticus 25:49 and Numbers 27:11 only some species are named. — Further, it was said, this too is to be considered: to the Scheer Besaro in Leviticus 25:49, and to the Scheer Ha Karob in Numbers 27:11, the generalizing expression Mimmischpachto (of his family) is appended, by which generalizing expression the enumeration is closed. The Scheer in Leviticus 18:6 receives its closer definition from Besaro, and in Leviticus 25:49 and Numbers 27:11 from the Mimmischpachto; therefore one cannot prove anything against the one from the other. —

Finally attention was drawn to the fact that everything depends on proving that in Leviticus 18:6 from the original meaning of the