Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to become 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.
Bible in Basic English
And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself 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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 18:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws Of Sexual Relations
19 And thou shalt not approach a woman in the separation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness. 20 And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to become unclean with her. 21 And thou shalt not give of thy seed to let them pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Leviticus 20:10
And a man that committeth adultery with a man's wife, who committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death.
Matthew 5:27-28
Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt not commit adultery.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.
Deuteronomy 5:18
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man be found lying with a man's wife, they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 22:25
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her, then the man only that lay with her shall die;
2 Samuel 11:3-4
and David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urijah the Hittite?
2 Samuel 11:27
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of Jehovah.
Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;
Proverbs 6:29-33
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Romans 2:22
thou that sayest man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,