Thematic Bible: Mother-in-law


Thematic Bible



If a man take a wife and her mother thereto, it is wickedness. Men shall burn with fire both him and them, that there be no wickedness among you. Verse ConceptsAbominationsCremationPunishment, Legal Aspects OfForbidden Sexual RelationshipsBurning PeopleDeath Penalty For Sexual SinMarriage ControlledSex Before MarriageSame Sex Marriage

Thou shalt not uncover the privities of the wife and her daughter also; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover their privities: they are her next kin, it were therefore wickedness. Verse ConceptsForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness UncoveredsexSex Before MarriageSame Sex MarriageFather And Daughter Relationships

"'Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' Verse ConceptsMothers, Responsibilities OfAmen

And Simon's mother-in-law lay sick of a fever, and anon they told him of her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever forsook her by and by: And she ministered unto them.

Therewith they cried and wept again. Howbeit, Orpah kissed her mother-in-law but Ruth abode still by her. Then she said, "See, thy sister-in-law is gone back again unto her people and unto her god: return thou after her." But Ruth said, "Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from after thee. For whither thou goest, I will go. And where thou dwellest, there I will dwell. Thy people are my people, and thy God is my God. read more.
Where thou diest, I will die, and there will be buried. The LORD do so and so to me, except that death only depart thee and me asunder."