Deuteronomy 27:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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!’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he uncovers what belongs to his father. All the people shall say, Amen.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife, because he hath uncovered his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Common English Bible

²⁰ “Cursed is anyone who has sex with his father’s wife, because that exposes his father’s private matters.” All the people will reply: “We agree!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, and so exposes the covering of his bed. And all the people shall say: Amen.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, and uncovereth his bed. And all the people shall say: Amen.

Deuteronomy 27:20 Cross References

Genesis 35:22

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

Genesis 49:4

Unstable as water, you shall no longer excel because you went up onto your father’s bed; then you defiled it—you went up onto my couch!

2 Samuel 16:22

So they pitched a tent for Absalom upon the roof, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

1 Chronicles 5:1

The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. (He was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s bed his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, so that he is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright;

Ezekiel 22:10

In you they uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women during their menstrual periods.

Leviticus 18:7

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

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.

Amos 2:7

they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same young woman, so that my holy name is profaned;

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.

Deuteronomy 22:30

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

Deuteronomy 23:1

“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall come into the assembly of the Lord.