Deuteronomy 27:20

Blessings And Curses

¹⁹ "'Cursed be he that hindereth the right of the stranger, fatherless and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁰ "'Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath opened his father's covering.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²¹ "'Cursed be he that lieth with any manner beast.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Sexual Relations

Deuteronomy 22:30

No man shall take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's covering.

Leviticus 18:8

The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities.

Leviticus 20:11

If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's privities, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heads.

1 Corinthians 5:1

There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.

Genesis 35:22

And it chanced, as Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number.

Genesis 49:4

As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest, for thou wentest up upon thy father's bed, and then defiledest thou my couch with going up.

2 Samuel 16:22

And so they pitched Absalom a tent upon the top of the house. And he went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

1 Chronicles 5:1

The sons of Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: for he was the eldest. But because he defied his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, and so he is not reckoned unto the birthright.

Ezekiel 22:10

In thee have they discovered their fathers' shame, in thee have they vexed women in their sickness.

Amos 2:7

They tread upon poor men's heads, in the dust of the earth, and crook the ways of the meek. The son and the father go to the harlot, to dishonour my holy name,