Leviticus 20:14 BSB

Leviticus 20:14

If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

BSB

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ASV

And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

KJV

And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

They shall be burnt with fire - As there are worse crimes mentioned here, (see Lev 20:11 and Lev 20:17), where the delinquent is ordered simply to be put to death, or to be cut off, it is very likely that the crime mentioned in this verse was not punished by burning alive, but by some kind of branding, by which they were ever after rendered infamous.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The only instance of another form of capital punishment occurs in Le 20:14, that of being burnt with fire; and yet it is probable that even here death was first inflicted by stoning, and the body of the criminal afterwards consumed by fire (Jos 7:15).

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאִ֗ישׁ	ve.'Ish	and a man	H376 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
יִקַּ֧ח	yi.Kach	he will take	H3947 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אִשָּׁ֛ה	'i.Shah	a woman	H802 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
אִמָּ֖הּ	'i.Mah	mother her	H517 →
זִמָּ֣ה	zi.Mah	[is] wickedness	H2154 →
הִ֑וא	hi'	it	H1931 →
בָּאֵ֞שׁ	ba.'Esh	with <the> fire	H784 →
יִשְׂרְפ֤וּ	yis.re.Fu	people will burn	H8313 →
אֹתוֹ֙	'o.To	<obj.> him	H853 →
וְאֶתְהֶ֔ן	ve.'et.Hen	and <obj.> them	H853 →
וְלֹא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
תִהְיֶ֥ה	tih.Yeh	it will be	H1961 →
זִמָּ֖ה	zi.Mah	wickedness	H2154 →
בְּתוֹכְכֶֽם׃	be.tokh.Khem	in midst of you	H8432 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Joshua 7:25
“Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.
leads to
- Joshua 6:18
  But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and…
- 1 Chronicles 2:7
  The son of Carmi: Achar, who brought trouble upon Israel by violating the ban on devoted things.
- Deuteronomy 17:5
  you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.
Through
Joshua 7:15
The one who is caught with the things devoted to destruction must be burned, along with all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD and committed an outrage…
leads to
- Genesis 34:7
  When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that…
- Judges 20:6
  Then I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
Through
Amos 2:7
They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl…
leads to
- Amos 5:12
  For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
- 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.
- Isaiah 10:2
  to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

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

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Leviticus

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Leviticus