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Deuteronomy 22:30

A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy 22:30 · King James Version

In other versions

  • A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

    ASV

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

    BBE

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

    DBY

  • A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

    WEB

  • `A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

    YLT

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

    ENG

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

    WBT

  • A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.

    BSB

In context

28If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

29Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

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