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.
Burnt
General references
Bible References
A wife
Leviticus 18:17
You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness (have intimate relations with them); they are [her] blood relatives; it is an outrageous offense.
Deuteronomy 27:23
‘Cursed is he who is intimate with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Amos 2:7
“These who pant after (long to see) the dust of the earth on the head of the helpless [as sign of their grief and distress]
Also turn aside the way of the humble;
And a man and his father will go to the samegirl
So that My holy name is profaned.
“These who pant after (long to see) the dust of the earth on the head of the helpless [as sign of their grief and distress]
Also turn aside the way of the humble;
And a man and his father will go to the same
So that My holy name is profaned.
Burnt
Leviticus 21:9
The daughter of any priest who profanes herself by prostitution profanes her father; she shall be burned in fire.
Joshua 7:15
It shall be that the one who is chosen with the things under the ban shall be [killed and his body] burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done a disgraceful and disobedient thing in Israel.’”
General references
Deuteronomy 27:23
‘Cursed is he who is intimate with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’