Leviticus 20:11

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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

Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:23

“The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law!’ “Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:20

“The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who shames his father by having sexual relations with his father’s wife.’ “Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

1 Corinthians 5:1

I don’t want to believe what I am hearing—that there is sexual sin among you. And it is such a bad kind of sexual sin that even those who have never known God don’t allow it. People say that a man there has his father’s wife.

Amos 2:7

They pushed their faces into the ground and walked on them. They stopped listening to suffering people. Fathers and sons had sexual relations with the same woman. They ruined my holy name.

Deuteronomy 22:30

“A man must not bring shame to his father by marrying his father’s wife.

Leviticus 18:6

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