Deuteronomy 22:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ “A man shall not marry his father’s wife, thereby violating his father’s rights.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ A man shall not take his father's former wife, nor shall he uncover her who belongs to his father.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

Common English Bible

³⁰ A man cannot marry his father’s former wife so that his father’s private matters are not exposed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove her covering."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.

Deuteronomy 22:30 Cross References

Ezekiel 16:8

I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

Leviticus 18:8

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is the nakedness of your father.

Leviticus 20:11

The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall be put to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you and the sort of sexual immorality that is not found even among gentiles, for a man is living with his father’s wife.

1 Corinthians 5:13

God will judge those outside. “Drive out the wicked person from among you.”

Deuteronomy 22:29

the man who lay with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the young woman’s father, and she shall become his wife. Because he violated her, he shall not be permitted to divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 27:20

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his father’s wife, because he has violated his father’s rights.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Ruth 3:9

He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your servant; spread your cloak over your servant, for you are next-of-kin.”