Leviticus 20:11

Easy To Read Version

If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, then both the man and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death. [353] It is as if that man had had sexual relations with his father! [354]

Cross References

Leviticus 18:6

“You must never have sexual relations with [312] your close relatives! I am the Lord.

Amos 2:7

They pushed those poor peoples’ faces into the ground and walked on them. They stopped listening to suffering people. Fathers and sons have sexual relations with the same woman. They have ruined my holy name.

1 Corinthians 5:1

People are really saying that there is sexual sin among you. And it is such a bad kind of sexual sin that it does not happen even among those people that don’t know God. People say that a man there has his father’s wife.

Deuteronomy 22:30

“A man must not bring shame to his father by having sexual relations with his father’s wife.”

Deuteronomy 27:20

“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that has sexual relations with his father’s wife. [179] Why? Because he brings shame to his father [180] !’

Deuteronomy 27:23

“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that has sexual relations with his mother-in-law!’