Honoring the Seventh Commandment

¹⁰ “If anyone commits adultery with another man’s wife, including when someone commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress are to die.

¹¹ “If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness, so both of them are to be put to death. Their guilt will remain their responsibility.

¹² “If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, the two are to be put to death. They’ve committed a repulsive act. Their guilt^[a] will remain their responsibility.

¹³ “If a man has sexual relations with another male as he would with a woman, both have committed a repulsive act. They are certainly to be put to death.

¹⁴ “If a man takes a wife along with her mother, that’s wickedness. They are to be burned with fire—that is, both him and them, so that there will be no wickedness in your midst.

¹⁵ “If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you are also to kill the animal.

¹⁶ “If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual relations with it, both the woman and the animal are to be put to death. Their guilt^[b] will remain their responsibility.

¹⁷ “If a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, so that he exposes her nakedness and she exposes his nakedness, it’s a shameful thing. They are to be eliminated from contact with their people^[c] in front of their people’s children. He has exposed his sister’s nakedness. He’ll continue to bear responsibility for^[d] his iniquity.

¹⁸ “If a man has sexual relations with a menstruating woman, he has exposed her nakedness, laying bare her fountain. He has exposed the source of her blood. Both are to be eliminated from contact with their people.^[e]

¹⁹ “You are not to have sexual relations with your mother’s sister or your father’s sister, because that is laying bare the nakedness of his close relative. They’ll continue to bear responsibility for^[f] their iniquity.

²⁰ “If a man has sexual relations with his uncle’s wife, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness. They are to bear responsibility for^[g] punishment of their sin. They’ll die childless.

²¹ “If a man takes his brother’s wife, it’s immoral.^[h] He has exposed his brother’s nakedness. They’ll be childless.”