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Leviticus 18:20

Do not sleep with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her in this way.

Unlocked Literal Bible

In The King James Version

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

In Context

19Do not sleep with a woman during her menstruation. She is unclean during that time.

21You must not give any of your children to put them into the fire, so that you sacrifice them to Molech, because you must not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:10The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, that is, anyone who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife—the adulterer and the adulteress must both certainly be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22If a man is found sleeping with a woman who is married to another man, then they must both die, the man who was sleeping with the woman and the woman herself; and you will remove the evil from among you.

2 Samuel 11:3So David sent and he asked people who would know about the woman. Someone said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, and is she not the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

Proverbs 6:25Do not lust in your heart after her beauty 1 and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes. 1

Ezekiel 18:6if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and he does not defile his neighbor's wife, nor approached a woman during her monthly period, is he a righteous man?

Matthew 5:27You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:20-30

Laws against Iniquity. ( b. c. 1490.) 19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord . 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile… Read the whole commentary →

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