Deuteronomy 27:20
Cursed be he who lays with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21Cursed be he who lays with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Cross References
Genesis 35:22And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Leviticus 18:8the nakedness of thy father's wife. It is thy father's nakedness.
Deuteronomy 22:30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
2 Samuel 16:22So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
Ezekiel 22:10In thee have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness. In thee have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
1 Corinthians 5:1Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 27:12-26
The Curses from Ebal. ( b. c. 1451.) 11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: 13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice, 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination… Read the whole commentary →