Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
And the man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be on them.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has shamed his father.
International Standard Version
"If a man has sexual relations with his father's wife, he has exposed his father's nakedness, so both of them are to be put to death. Their guilt will remain their responsibility.
A Conservative Version
And the man who lays with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
The man who lies [intimately] with his father’s wife has
Bible in Basic English
And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.
Darby Translation
And a man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall certainly be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Julia Smith Translation
And a man who shall lie with his father's wife, uncovered his father's nakedness: dying, they shall die: they two their blood is upon them,
King James 2000
And the man that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As for a man who lies with his father's wife, he has exposed his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death--their blood [is] on them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's privities, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heads.
NET Bible
If a man has sexual intercourse with his father's wife, he has exposed his father's nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
New Heart English Bible
The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
The Emphasized Bible
And any man who lieth with his father's wife, the shame of his father, hath uncovered, - they both shall, surely be put to death - their blood shall be upon themselves.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
"'The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Youngs Literal Translation
And a man who lieth with his father's wife -- the nakedness of his father he hath uncovered -- both of them are certainly put to death; their blood is on them.
Themes
Confusion » Who has wrought confusion
Incest » Defined and forbidden
Topics
Interlinear
'ab
Galah
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Sh@nayim
Muwth
Muwth
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References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 20:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Family And Sexual Offenses
10 And a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11 And the man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be on them. 12 And if a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have performed a perversion; their blood shall be on them.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:20
Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:23
Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Leviticus 18:7-8
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Amos 2:7
panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father will go in to the same woman, to defile My holy name.
1 Corinthians 5:1
On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife.