Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
And of the wife of thy neighbour, shalt thou not have carnal knowledge, - to commit uncleanness 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.
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.
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 unto a woman during her removal for uncleanness, shalt thou not approach, to uncover her shame. 20 And of the wife of thy neighbour, shalt thou not have carnal knowledge, - to commit uncleanness with her. 21 And none of thy seed, shalt thou deliver up, to cause to pass through to Molech, - that thou profane not the name of thy God, I, am Yahweh.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Leviticus 20:10
And, any man, who committeth adultery with the wife of any other man, he that committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour shall surely be put to death - the adulterer, and the adulteress.
Matthew 5:27-28
Ye have heard, that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or know ye not that, wrong-doers, shall not inherit, God's kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves: - neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be honourable in all, and the bed undefiled, for, fornicators and adulterers, God, will judge.
Deuteronomy 5:18
Neither shalt thou commit adultery:
Deuteronomy 22:22
When a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then shall, both, of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman, so shalt thou consume the wicked thing out of Israel.
Deuteronomy 22:25
But if in the field, the man find the betrothed damsel and the man force her and lie with her, then shall the man that lay with her die he alone;
2 Samuel 11:3-4
And David sent and enquired after the woman, - and one said - Is not, this, Bath-sheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?
2 Samuel 11:27
And, when the time of mourning had passed, David sent and received her into his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing which David had done was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh.
Proverbs 6:25
Do not covet her beauty, in thy heart, neither let her take thee, by her eyelashes;
Proverbs 6:29-33
So, he that goeth in unto his neighbour's wife, no man shall be guiltless who toucheth her!
Malachi 3:5
Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood, - and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh of hosts.
Romans 2:22
That sayest - Do not commit adultery! Art thou, committing adultery? That abhorrest sacrilege, Art thou, robbing temples?
Galatians 5:19
Manifest, however, are the works of the flesh, which, indeed, are - fornication, impurity, wantonness,