Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
KJV
Non mœchaberis.
Vulgate
Οὐ κλέψεις.
LXX
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
ASV
לֹ֖א תִּנְאָֽף
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
2 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים
mn'pym
verb · 31×
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 2 later passages.
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Jas 2:11 · exact_quote"For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law."Exodus: do not commit adultery — James on keeping the whole law
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Matt 5:27 · exact_quote"Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:"Exodus: you shall not commit adultery — Jesus quotes in Sermon on the Mount
Themes
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Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2056The word "Decalogue" means literally "ten words."11 God revealed these "ten words" to his people on the holy mountain. They were written "with the finger of God,"12 unlike the other commandments written by Moses.13 They are pre-eminently the words of God. They are handed on to us in the books of Exodus 14 and Deuteronomy.15 Beginning with the Old Testament, the sacred books ref…
And the second commandment of the Teaching: Thou shalt not commit murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not commit pederasty, thou shalt not commit fornication, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not practise magic, thou shalt not use witchcraft, thou shalt not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is born.
Thou shalt not commit adultery. These commandments now following are easily understood from the preceding; for they are all to the effect that we beware of doing any injury to our neighbor. They are arranged in fine order. In the first place, his own person is addressed. Then the next commandment proceeds to the nearest treasure next his body, namely, his wife, who is one flesh…
Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long upon the earth. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor …
Q. What does the Lord say in his law? A. God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Honor your father and your mother. You …
Cross-references
- 2Sam 11:27 — And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
- Deut 5:18 — Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
- Deut 5:18 — Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
- Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
- Heb 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
- Jas 4:4 — Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
- Jer 5:8 — They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
- Lev 18:20 — Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
- Lev 18:20 — Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
- Lev 20:10 — And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Lev 20:10 — And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Mal 3:5 — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his
- Mark 10:11 — And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
- Matt 5:27 — Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
- Matt 5:27 — Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
- Matt 19:18 — He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
- Prov 6:32 — But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
- Rev 21:8 — But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimst
- Rom 7:2 — For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
- Rom 7:3 — So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she
- Rom 13:9 — For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly compr