Deuteronomy 27:20
“Cursed [is] he who is lying with his father’s wife, for he has uncovered his father’s skirt.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21“Cursed [is] he who is lying with any beast.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”
Cross References
Genesis 35:22and it comes to pass in Israel’s dwelling in that land, that Reuben goes, and lies with his father’s concubine Bilhah; and Israel hears.
Leviticus 18:8You do not uncover the nakedness of the wife of your father; it [is] the nakedness of your father.
Deuteronomy 22:30A man does not take his father’s wife, nor uncover his father’s skirt.”
2 Samuel 16:22And they spread out the tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom goes in to the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel.
Ezekiel 22:10One has uncovered the nakedness of a father in you, || They humbled the menstruous woman in you.
1 Corinthians 5:1Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations—as that one has the wife of the father!
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 →