Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
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.
Holman Bible
“A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.
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 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 then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife. Because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 18:8
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife. It is your father's nakedness.
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.
Leviticus 20:11
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.
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.
Ruth 3:9
And he said, Who are you? And she answered, I am your handmaid Ruth. And you shall spread your skirt over your handmaid, for you are a kinsman-redeemer.
Ezekiel 16:8
And I passed by you and looked on you, and, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Jehovah. And you became Mine.
1 Corinthians 5:13
But God judges those who are outside. Therefore put out from you the evil one.