Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
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Deuteronomy 27:20
"'Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath opened his father's covering.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Leviticus 18:8
The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities.
Leviticus 20:11
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.
1 Corinthians 5:1
There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.
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Ruth 3:9
Then he said, "What art thou?" And she answered, "I am Ruth, thine handmaid. Spread thy mantle over thine handmaid, for thou art the next of the kin."
Ezekiel 16:8
Now when I went by thee, and looked upon thee: behold, thy time was come; yea, even the time to vow thee. Then spread I my clothes over thee, to cover thy dishonesty: Yea, I made an oath unto thee, and married myself with thee, sayeth the LORD God; and so thou becamest mine own.
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Leviticus 18:8
The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities.
Deuteronomy 27:20
"'Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath opened his father's covering.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'