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

²⁰ If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall be subject to punishment; they shall die childless.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ And if a man shall lie carnally with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless [not literally, but in a legal sense].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

Common English Bible

²⁰ If a man has sexual intercourse with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. The man and the aunt will be liable to punishment; they will die childless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ If any man has had sexual intercourse with the wife of his paternal or maternal uncle, and he has uncovered the shame of his close relative, both shall bear their sin. They shall die without children.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ If any man lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both shall bear their sin. They shall die without children.

Leviticus 20:20 Cross References

Job 18:19

They have no offspring or descendant among their people and no survivor where they used to live.

Psalm 109:13

May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation.

Jeremiah 22:30

Thus says the Lord: Record this man as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.

Leviticus 18:14

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother; that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

Leviticus 20:21

If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

Luke 1:25

“This is what the Lord has done for me in this time, when he looked favorably on me and took away the disgrace I have endured among my people.”

Luke 1:7

But they had no children because Elizabeth was barren, and both were getting on in years.

Luke 23:29

For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’