“You must never have sexual relations with [312] your close relatives! I am the Lord.
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] Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the man who lies carnally with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of the guilty ones shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon their own heads. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be executed; their blood is on their own heads. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever will have slept with his stepmother, or will have uncovered the shame of his father, they shall both die a death. So let their blood be upon them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them. |
“You must never have sexual relations with [312] your close relatives! I am the Lord.
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.”
“{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] !’
“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that has sexual relations with his mother-in-law!’