Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
Bible References
General references
Leviticus 20:11
If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has shamed his father. Both of them must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.
Genesis 35:22
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.
Jacob had 12 sons:
Jacob had 12 sons:
Genesis 49:4 Turbulent as water, you will no longer excel,
because you got into your father’s bed
and you defiled it—he got into my bed.
because you got into your father’s bed
and you defiled it—he
Deuteronomy 22:30
“A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.
Deuteronomy 27:20 ‘The one who sleeps with his father’s wife is cursed, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
2 Samuel 16:21
Ahithophel replied to Absalom, “Sleep with your father’s concubines he left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become repulsive to your father, everyone with you will be encouraged.”
Ezekiel 22:10
Men within you have sexual intercourse with their father’s wife and violate women during their menstrual impurity.
Amos 2:7 They trample the heads of the poor
on the dust of the ground
and block the path of the needy.
A man and his father have sexual relations
with the same girl,
profaning My holy name.
on the dust of the ground
and block the path of the needy.
A man and his father have sexual relations
with the same girl,
profaning My holy name.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles—a man is living with his father’s wife.