Leviticus 18:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ You shall not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

Common English Bible

²⁰ You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow Israelite, becoming unclean by it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ You shall not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife, nor shall you be defiled by the mingling of seed.

Leviticus 18:20 Cross References

Leviticus 20:10

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, men who engage in illicit sex,

Deuteronomy 5:18

“ ‘Neither shall you commit adultery.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,

Romans 2:22

You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,

2 Samuel 11:27

When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord,

Deuteronomy 22:25

“But if the man meets the engaged woman in the open country and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

Deuteronomy 22:22

“If a man is discovered lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman as well as the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Numbers 5:13

if a man has had intercourse with her but it is hidden from her husband, so that she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her since she was not caught in the act;

Ezekiel 18:6

if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period,