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Leviticus 20:17 (AMP)

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17 If a man takes his sister, his father's or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked and shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has had sexual relations with his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.

This passage relates to the following question(s):
(v. 17) Is it right to marry a sibling? If a man marries his sister, it is a disgrace.