Leviticus 20:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ And the man who lies carnally with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of the guilty ones shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon their own heads.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Common English Bible

¹¹ If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be executed; their blood is on their own heads.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Whoever will have slept with his stepmother, or will have uncovered the shame of his father, they shall both die a death. So let their blood be upon them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.

Leviticus 20:11 Cross References

Leviticus 18:6

“None of you shall approach anyone near of kin to uncover nakedness: I am the Lord.

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 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!’

Deuteronomy 27:23

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’