Parallel Verses
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.
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 has sex with her must give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she will become his wife because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.
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Phrases
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 18:8
Do not disgrace him by having sex with any of his other wives.
Deuteronomy 27:20
Cursed is the man who has sexual activities with his father's wife, because he has violated his father's rights.' And all the people say: 'Amen.'
Leviticus 20:11
A man who has intercourse with one of his father's wives disgraces his father. Both he and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you. This type of fornication is not even found among the people of the nations (who do not know God). There is a man who has his father's wife.
Ruth 3:9
He said: Who are you? She answered: I am your servant Ruth. Spread your garment over me, for you are my kinsman.
Ezekiel 16:8
Then I passed by you and saw that you were at the time for love. So I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became mine, declares the Lord Jehovah.
1 Corinthians 5:13
God judges those outside. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.