Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not 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 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.
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 lady'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, and shall not 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 has uncovered his father's skirt.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Leviticus 20:11
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.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.
Ruth 3:9
He said, "Who are you?" She answered, "I am Ruth your handmaid. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your handmaid; for you are a redeeming kinsman."
Ezekiel 16:8
"'Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,' says the Lord GOD, 'and you became mine.
1 Corinthians 5:13
But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."