Parallel Verses

NET Bible

A man may not marry his father's former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

New American Standard Bible

A man shall not take his father’s wife so that he will not uncover his father’s skirt.

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

A man shall not take his father’s [former] wife, so that he will not expose his father’s wife.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A man
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

shall not take
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

References

Fausets

Law

Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

29 The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives. 30  A man may not marry his father's former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

Cross References

Leviticus 18:8

You must not have sexual intercourse with your father's wife; she is your father's nakedness.

Deuteronomy 27:20

Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his father's former wife, for he dishonors his father.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

Leviticus 20:11

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.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father's wife.

Ruth 3:9

He said, "Who are you?" She replied, "I am Ruth, your servant. Marry your servant, for you are a guardian of the family interests."

Ezekiel 16:8

"'Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

1 Corinthians 5:13

But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.

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