Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
Holman Bible
You are not to have sexual intercourse with
International Standard Version
"You are not to have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and thereby become ceremonially unclean with her."
A Conservative Version
And thou shall not lay carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.
Amplified
You shall not have intimate relations with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.
Darby Translation
And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to become unclean with her.
Julia Smith Translation
To thy neighbor's wife thou shalt not give thy effusion of seed to be defiled with her.
King James 2000
Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And {you must not have sex} with your fellow citizen's wife, becoming unclean with her.
Modern King James verseion
And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"'Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
NET Bible
You must not have sexual intercourse with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
New Heart English Bible
"'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
The Emphasized Bible
And of the wife of thy neighbour, shalt thou not have carnal knowledge, - to commit uncleanness with her.
Webster
Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.
World English Bible
"'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
Youngs Literal Translation
'And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.
Themes
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Lying with a woman in her menses
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Adultery
Adultery » Not committing adultery
Topics
Interlinear
Nathan
Zera`
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 18:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws Of Sexual Relations
19 And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time. 20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her. 21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 20:14
Do not be false to the married relation.
Leviticus 20:10
And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
Matthew 5:27-28
You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:
1 Corinthians 6:9
Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
Hebrews 13:4
Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
Deuteronomy 5:18
Do not be false to the married relation.
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 22:25
But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is to be put to death;
2 Samuel 11:3-4
And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?
2 Samuel 11:27
And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.
Proverbs 6:25
Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
Proverbs 6:29-33
So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
Romans 2:22
You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,