Deuteronomy 22:30 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁰ “A man shall not take his father's wife, nor shall he uncover her who is his father's.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ A man shall not take his father's former wife, nor shall he uncover her who belongs to his father.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

Common English Bible

³⁰ A man cannot marry his father’s former wife so that his father’s private matters are not exposed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove her covering."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.

Deuteronomy 22:30 Cross References

Ezekiel 16:8

“When I passed by you again and looked upon you, behold, you were at the age for love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I plighted my troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

Leviticus 18:8

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.

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 blood is upon them.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father's wife.

1 Corinthians 5:13

God judges those outside. “Drive out the wicked person from among you.”

Deuteronomy 22:29

then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.

Deuteronomy 27:20

“ ‘Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered her who is his father's.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Ruth 3:9

He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your maidservant; spread your skirt over your maidservant, for you are next of kin.”