Deuteronomy 22:30 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD and thou becamest mine.

Leviticus 18:8

The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

Leviticus 20:11

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.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father's wife.

1 Corinthians 5:13

whereas them that are without God judgeth? Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

Deuteronomy 22:29

then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

Deuteronomy 27:20

Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Ruth 3:9

And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.