Deuteronomy 27:20
'Cursed [is] he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, — and all the people have said, Amen.
Young's Literal Translation
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 cometh to pass in Israel's dwelling in that land, that Reuben goeth, and lieth with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heareth.
Leviticus 18:8'The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it [is] the nakedness of thy father.
Deuteronomy 22:30'A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
2 Samuel 16:22And they spread out for Absalom the tent on the roof, and Absalom goeth in unto the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel.
Ezekiel 22:10The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee.
1 Corinthians 5:1Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations — as that one hath 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 →