Leviticus 20:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.”
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“If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife--who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour--the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 20:10 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 20:14You shall not commit adultery.
- Leviticus 18:20You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
- Deuteronomy 5:18You shall not commit adultery.
- Deuteronomy 22:22If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 22:24you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- 2 Samuel 12:13Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
- Job 31:9If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
- Job 31:11For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.
- Ezekiel 23:45But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
- John 8:4and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
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