Leviticus 20:10

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If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:14 : 14 “You shall not commit adultery.
  • Lev 18:20 : 20 You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
  • Deut 5:18 : 18 You must not commit adultery.
  • John 8:4-5 : 4 and said to Jesus,“Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. 5 In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?”
  • Deut 22:22-24 : 22 If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel. 23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her, 24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.
  • 2 Sam 12:13 : 13 Then David exclaimed to Nathan,“I have sinned against the LORD!” Nathan replied to David,“Yes, and the LORD has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die.
  • Ezek 23:45-47 : 45 But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands. 46 “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder. 47 That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 20:11-16
    6 verses
    86%

    11If 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.

    12If a man goes to bed with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; their blood guilt is on themselves.

    13If a man goes to bed with a male as one goes to bed with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

    14If 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.

    15If a man has sexual relations with any animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

    16If a woman approaches any animal to copulate with it, you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

  • Deut 22:21-22
    2 verses
    83%

    21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

    22If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

  • Exod 20:13-14
    2 verses
    81%

    13“You shall not murder.

    14“You shall not commit adultery.

  • Lev 20:9
    80%

    9Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

  • Lev 24:16-17
    2 verses
    80%

    16and one who misuses the name of the LORD must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a resident foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

    17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

  • Deut 17:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing– that very man or woman– and you must stone that person to death.

    6At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

  • Deut 22:24-25
    2 verses
    79%

    24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.

    25But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

  • Exod 21:12
    79%

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • Lev 18:20
    78%

    20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

  • Exod 21:14-17
    4 verses
    78%

    14But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

    15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

    16“Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

    17“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

  • Lev 19:20
    77%

    20Lying 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.

  • Lev 20:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20If 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.

    21If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.

  • Deut 5:18
    77%

    18You must not commit adultery.

  • Lev 20:27
    76%

    27Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums“‘A man or woman who has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

  • Deut 21:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

    22Disposition of a Criminal’s Remains If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

  • Exod 22:19
    75%

    19“Whoever has sexual relations with a beast must surely be put to death.

  • Jas 2:11
    75%

    11For he who said,“Do not commit adultery,” also said,“Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

  • Deut 13:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

    10You must stone him to death because he tried to entice you away from the LORD your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

  • Num 15:35
    74%

    35Then the LORD said to Moses,“The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone him with stones outside the camp.”

  • Mark 10:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

    12And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

  • Matt 5:27
    74%

    27Adultery“You have heard that it was said,‘Do not commit adultery.’

  • Num 5:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

    13and 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–

  • Lev 24:21
    74%

    21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

  • Prov 6:29
    73%

    29So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.

  • Prov 6:32
    73%

    32A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, whoever does it destroys his own life.

  • Num 5:20
    73%

    20But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”

  • Num 35:30-31
    2 verses
    73%

    30“Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses, but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

    31Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

  • Exod 31:14
    73%

    14So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.

  • Ezek 16:32
    73%

    32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Exod 20:17
    73%

    17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

  • Luke 16:18
    73%

    18“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.