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Deuteronomy 27:22

in Deuteronomy 27

‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

KJV

Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

This verse in Deuteronomy 27

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife

on Deuteronomy 27:20-23

All four stand in Leviticus 18, at 18:8, 18:23, 18:9 and 18:17. Like the curses around them, each is done inside a household where no outside witness would be present.

This site's exposition

the daughter of his father

Leviticus 20:17 had already ordered that a man who takes his sister be cut off in the sight of the people. Henry files this curse under the seventh commandment. Amnon's crime against Tamar, his father's daughter, at 2 Samuel 13 is a case Israel's history records.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

Cursed be he that lieth with his sister,.... Which is forbid, Lev 18:9, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother; whether his sister by father or mother's side: and all the people shall say Amen; detesting such uncleanness.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

These crimes not only exposed men to the sword of the magistrate ( Lev. xx. 11 ), but, which is more dreadful, to the wrath of God; bestiality likewise,

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the L ORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day. A general charge to the people to keep God's commandments; for in vain did they know them, unless they would do them. This is pressed upon them, 1.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אָר֗וּר[is] cursed

    ʾarurH779 →63 times

  • שֹׁכֵב֙[one who] lies

    shokhevH7901 →212 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • אֲחֹת֔וֹsister his

    ʾachotoH269 →

  • בַּת־[the] daughter of

    bat-H1323 →588 times

  • אָבִ֖יוfather his

    ʾavivH1 →1212 times

  • א֣וֹor

    ʾoH176 →321 times

  • בַת־[the] daughter of

    vat-H1323 →588 times

  • אִמּ֑וֹmother his

    ʾimoH517 →220 times

  • וְאָמַ֥רand it will say

    veamarH559 →5305 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֖םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • אָמֵֽן׃ סamen

    ʾamenH543 →30 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 20:17

    If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 18:9

      You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 22:11

    One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 20:17

      If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 13:14

      But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.

    • Leviticus 18:15

      You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

  • Through

    Leviticus 18:9

    You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 22:11

      One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 13:1

    After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 3:9

      These were all the sons of David, besides the sons by his concubines. And Tamar was their sister.

    • 2 Samuel 3:2–3

      And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;

    • 2 Samuel 13:15

      Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.