Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

General references

Bible References

A wife

Leviticus 18:17
You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is lewdness.
Deuteronomy 27:23
Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Amos 2:7
“These who pant after the very dust of the earth on the head of the helpless
Also turn aside the way of the humble;
And a man and his father resort to the same girl
In order to profane My holy name.

Burnt

Leviticus 21:9
Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.
Joshua 7:15
It shall be that the one who is taken with the things under the ban shall be burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has committed a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

General references

Deuteronomy 27:23
Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’