Leviticus 20:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed perversion; their bloodguilt is upon them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And if a man lies carnally with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have wrought confusion, perversion, and defilement; their blood shall be upon their own heads.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

Common English Bible

¹² If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be executed. They have acted perversely; their blood is on their own heads.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² If any man will have slept with his daughter-in-law, both shall die, for they have acted according to wickedness. So let their blood be upon them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² If any man lie with his daughter-in-law, let both die, because they have done a heinous crime. Their blood be upon them.

Leviticus 20:12 Cross References

Genesis 38:16

He went over to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

Genesis 38:18

He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, “Your signet and your cord and the staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

Exodus 22:2

(If the thief is found breaking in and is struck dead, no bloodguilt is incurred;

Leviticus 18:15

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

Leviticus 18:23

You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is perversion.

Deuteronomy 27:23

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