Deuteronomy 27:20
Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.
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21Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it.
Cross References
Genesis 35:22Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.
Leviticus 18:8And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.
Deuteronomy 22:30A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.
2 Samuel 16:22So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.
Ezekiel 22:10In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.
1 Corinthians 5:1It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has 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 →