Leviticus 18:20
Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
KJV
Cum uxore proximi tui non coibis, nec seminis commistione maculaberis.
Vulgate
καὶ πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον σου οὐ δώσεις κοίτην σπέρματός σου, ἐκμιανθῆναι πρὸς αὐτήν.
LXX
And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
ASV
וְ/אֶל אֵ֨שֶׁת֙ עֲמִֽיתְ/ךָ֔ לֹא תִתֵּ֥ן שְׁכָבְתְּ/ךָ֖ לְ/זָ֑רַע לְ/טָמְאָה בָֽ/הּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
וֹ
v
noun · 780×
וֹ
v
noun · 226×
טָמֵ֥א
tm'
verb · 162×
ךָ
k
pronoun · 10×
ךָ֖
k
pronoun · 4×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2388Incest designates intimate relations between relatives or in-laws within a degree that prohibits marriage between them.180 St. Paul stigmatizes this especially grave offense: "It is actually reported that there is immorality among you . . . for a man is living with his father's wife.... In the name of the Lord Jesus ... you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction o…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- 2Sam 11:3 — And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
- Deut 5:18 — Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
- Exod 20:14 — Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- Exod 20:14 — Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- Ezek 22:11 — And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
- Heb 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
- 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.
- Matt 5:27 — Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
- Num 5:13 — And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
- Prov 6:25 — Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.