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Leviticus 18:20

You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.

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ASV

And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

KJV

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

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9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְאֶל־ve.'el-and toH413 →
אֵ֙שֶׁת֙'e.shet[the] wife ofH802 →
עֲמִֽיתְךָ֔'a.mi.te.Khafellow citizen yourH5997 →
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
תִתֵּ֥ןti.Tenyou will giveH5414 →
שְׁכָבְתְּךָ֖she.kha.ve.te.Khacopulation yourH7903 →
לְזָ֑רַעle.Za.ra'for seedH2233 →
לְטָמְאָה־le.ta.me.'ah-to be uncleanH2930 →
בָֽהּ׃Vahby <the> her

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Numbers 5:13by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),Exodus 20:14You shall not commit adultery.1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.Matthew 5:27–28You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’Leviticus 20:10If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.Proverbs 6:25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.Deuteronomy 5:18You shall not commit adultery.2 Samuel 11:3–4So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”Ezekiel 22:11One 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.2 Samuel 11:27And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.Romans 2:22You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.Galatians 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;Deuteronomy 22:22If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.Proverbs 6:29–33So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.Deuteronomy 22:25But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

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Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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