Leviticus 20:12

And if anyone should lie with his daughter-in-law, let them both be put to death; for they have wrought impiety, they are guilty.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

In Context

11And if anyone should lie with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness: let them both die the death, they are guilty.

13And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both wrought abomination; let them die the death, they are guilty.

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Cross References

Genesis 38:18And he said, What is the earnest that I shall give thee? and she said, Thy ring, and thy bracelet, and the staff in thy hand; and he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

Leviticus 18:23Neither shalt thou lie with any quadruped for copulation, to be polluted with it: neither shall a woman present herself before any quadruped to have connection with it; for it is an abomination.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:11-22

10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11 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. 12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. 13 If a man also… Read the whole commentary →

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