Deuteronomy 22:30
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New International Version (©1984)
A man is not to marry his father's wife; he must not dishonor his father's bed.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"A man shall not take his father's wife so that he will not uncover his father's skirt.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
A man must never marry his father's wife because this would disgrace his father.

King James Bible
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

American King James Version
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

American Standard Version
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

Bible in Basic English
A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

Douay-Rheims Bible
No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.

Darby Bible Translation
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

English Revised Version
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

Webster's Bible Translation
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

World English Bible
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

Young's Literal Translation
'A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

Geneva Study Bible

A man shall not {l} take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

(l) He shall not lie with his stepmother, meaning by this all other variations forbidden in Le 18:1-30.

Wesley's Notes

22:30 Take - To wife. So this respects the state, and the next branch speaks of the act only.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:13-30 These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.


Leviticus 18:8 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.
Leviticus 20:11 If there is a man who lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
Deuteronomy 27:20 'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife. (NASB ©1995)

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A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

a man shall This is to be understood as referring to the case of a stepmother. A man in his old age may have married a young woman, and on his dying, his son by another, or a former wife, may desire to espouse her; which is forbidden. Le 27:20 18:8 20:11 1Co 5:1,13

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