Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
WEB
You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
YLT
`And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.
DBT
And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to become unclean with her.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLeviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
- Author
- Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
- Date
- Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)