Israel stayed there for a short time. While he was there, Reuben slept with Israel’s woman servant [214] Bilhah. Israel heard about this and was very angry.
Leviticus 18:8 - Easy To Read Version You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife {even if she is not your mother}. Why? Because that is like having sexual relations with your father. [314] Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover; it is your father's nakedness. American Standard Version (1901) The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover; it is thy father’s nakedness. Common English Bible You must not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall not expose the nakedness of your father's wife; for it is the nakedness of your father. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's wife: for it is the nakedness of thy father. |
Israel stayed there for a short time. While he was there, Reuben slept with Israel’s woman servant [214] Bilhah. Israel heard about this and was very angry.
But your passion was like a flood you couldn’t control. So you will not remain my most honored son. You climbed into your father’s bed {and slept with one of his wives}. You brought shame to my bed, to the bed you lay on.”
In Jerusalem, people do sexual sins with their father’s wife. In Jerusalem, men rape women—even during their monthly time of bleeding.
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]
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.
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.
“A man must not bring shame to his father by having sexual relations with his father’s wife.”
“A man with crushed testicles or part of his sex organs cut off may not join with the men of Israel to worship the Lord.
“{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] !’