Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And if a man lie with his aunt, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: their sin shall they bear: they shall die childless.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Holman Bible
If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has shamed his uncle;
International Standard Version
"If a man has sexual relations with his uncle's wife, he has exposed his uncle's nakedness. They are to bear responsibility for punishment of their sin. They'll die childless.
A Conservative Version
And if a man shall lay with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
American Standard Version
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Amplified
If there is a man who lies [intimately] with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they will bear their sin. They will die childless.
Bible in Basic English
And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children.
Julia Smith Translation
And a man who shall lie with his aunt, uncovered the nakedness of his uncle: they shall bear their sin: they shall die childless.
King James 2000
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As for a man who lies with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle's nakedness--they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Modern King James verseion
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If a man lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's privities: they shall bear their sin, and shall die childless.
NET Bible
If a man has sexual intercourse with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle's nakedness; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless.
New Heart English Bible
If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
The Emphasized Bible
And, any man, who lieth with his uncles wife, the shame of his uncle, hath he uncovered, - their sin, shall they bear - childless, shall they die.
Webster
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
World English Bible
If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Youngs Literal Translation
'And a man who lieth with his aunt, the nakedness of his uncle he hath uncovered; their sin they bear; childless they die.
Topics
Interlinear
Galah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 20:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Family And Sexual Offenses
19 And the nakedness of thy mother's sister, and of thy father's sister shalt thou not uncover; for he hath laid naked his near relation: they shall bear their iniquity. 20 And if a man lie with his aunt, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: their sin shall they bear: they shall die childless. 21 And if a man take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness: they shall be childless.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:14
The nakedness of thy father's brother shalt thou not uncover; thou shalt not approach his wife: she is thine aunt.
Job 18:19
He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
Psalm 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:
Jeremiah 22:30
Thus saith Jehovah: Write this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
Luke 1:7
And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in years.
Luke 1:25
Thus has the Lord done to me in these days in which he looked upon me to take away my reproach among men.
Luke 23:29
for behold, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and breasts that have not given suck.