Verse 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!’

Referenced Verses

• Deut 22:30 : 30 (23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
• 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.
• Gen 35:22 : 22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went to bed with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it.Jacob had twelve sons:
• Gen 49:4 : 4 You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it– he got on my couch!
• 2 Sam 16:22 : 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
• 1 Chr 5:1 : 1 Reuben’s Descendants The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn–(Now he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph, Israel’s son. So Reuben is not listed as firstborn in the genealogical records.
• Ezek 22:10 : 10 They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.
• Amos 2:7 : 7 They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.