You are not to have sex with your father’s wife;(A) she is your father’s family.(B)

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10 “If a man commits adultery(A) with a married woman—if he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. 11 If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his father.[a](B) Both of them must be put to death; their death is their own fault.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 20:11 Lit has uncovered his father’s nakedness
  2. 20:11 Lit their blood on them, also in vv. 12,13,16,27

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