Deuteronomy 22:30
(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 27:20 : 20 ‘Cursed is the one who goes to bed with his father’s former wife, for he dishonors his father.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
- Lev 18:8 : 8 You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.
- Lev 20:11 : 11 If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
- 1 Cor 5:1 : 1 Church Discipline It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.
- Ruth 3:9 : 9 He said,“Who are you?” She replied,“I am Ruth, your servant. Marry your servant, for you are a guardian of the family interests.”
- Ezek 16:8 : 8 “‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.
- 1 Cor 5:13 : 13 But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Lev 18:6-2015 verses85%
6 Laws of Sexual Relations“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the LORD.
7 You must not expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
8 You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.
9 You must not have sexual relations with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual relations with either of them.
10 You must not expose the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual relations with them, because they are your own nakedness.
11 You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not have sexual relations with her.
12 You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.
13 You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.
14 You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not approach his wife to have marital relations with her. She is your aunt.
15 You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have sexual relations with her.
16 You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.
17 You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have sexual relations with them. They are closely related to her– it is lewdness.
18 You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.
19 “‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.
20 You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
- Lev 20:17-215 verses80%
17 “‘If a man has marital relations with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has exposed his sister’s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.
18 If a man goes to bed with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has exposed the fountain of her blood, so both of them must be cut off from the midst of their people.
19 You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.
20 If a man goes to bed with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless.
21 If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.
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20 ‘Cursed is the one who goes to bed with his father’s former wife, for he dishonors his father.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
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11 If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
- Deut 22:28-292 verses78%
28 Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.
29 The man who has slept with her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife. Because he has humiliated her, he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
- Ezek 22:10-112 verses76%
10 They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.
11 One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.
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16 These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses, relating to a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father’s house.
- Deut 22:18-203 verses75%
18 The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.
19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
20 But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,
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14 If a man has marital relations with both a woman and her mother, it is lewdness. Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst.
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14 “You shall not commit adultery.
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29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.
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14 accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”
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5 A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor should a man dress up in women’s clothing, for anyone who does this is offensive to the LORD your God.
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29 So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
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13 and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–
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17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.
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30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
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26 And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’
- Exod 22:16-172 verses73%
16 Moral and Ceremonial Laws“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and goes to bed with her, he must surely pay the marriage price for her to be his wife.
17 If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.
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7 They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
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13 He must take a wife who is a virgin.
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15 He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
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12 You shall make yourselves tassels for the four corners of the clothing you wear.
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20 Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.
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18 You must not commit adultery.
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15 He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”