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 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 same girl
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.’