Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
“A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
International Standard Version
"A man must not marry his father's wife, so that he will not dishonor his father's memory."
A Conservative Version
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
American Standard Version
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
Amplified
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Bible in Basic English
A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.
Darby Translation
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
Julia Smith Translation
A man shall not take his father's wife and shall not uncover his father's wing.
King James 2000
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A man may not take the wife of his father, and [so] {he may not dishonor his father}.
Modern King James verseion
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
No man shall take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's covering.
NET Bible
A man may not marry his father's former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
New Heart English Bible
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
The Emphasized Bible
A man shall not take his father's wife, - neither shall he turn aside his father's coverlet.
Webster
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
World English Bible
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
Youngs Literal Translation
'A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
Topics
Interlinear
Laqach
'ab
אב
'ab
father, chief, families, desire, fatherless , forefathers , patrimony, prince, principal
Usage: 1214
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 22:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
29
the man who raped her must give the young woman’s father 50 silver shekels, and she must become his wife because he violated her.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 18:8
You are not to have sex with your father’s wife;
Deuteronomy 27:20
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Leviticus 20:11
If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has shamed his father.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality
Ruth 3:9
So he asked, “Who are you?”
“I am Ruth, your slave,” she replied. “Spread your cloak
Ezekiel 16:8
“Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of My garment over you and covered your nakedness.
1 Corinthians 5:13
But God judges outsiders. Put away the evil person from among yourselves.