Leviticus 20:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.

Leviticus 20:20 Cross References

Leviticus 18:14

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

Luke 1:25

Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.

Luke 1:7

And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.

Jeremiah 22:30

Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

Psalm 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Job 18:19

He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

Leviticus 20:21

And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.