the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Deuteronomy 27:23
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‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.'
'Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in lawe: and al the people shall say, Amen.
"The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law!' "Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!'
Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law! And all the people shall say, Amen!
"'Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be hee that lieth with his mother in law: and all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be he, yt lyeth with his mother in lawe. And all the people shal saye, Amen.
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it.
Cursed be he that lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed [be] he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the people shall say, Amen.
‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law.' Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!'
"Cursed is the one who lies with his mother-in-law.' "And all the people shall say, "Amen!'
"‘A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law.' All the people are to say, ‘Amen!'
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law! And all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be he that lyeth with his mother in law: And all the people shal say: So be it.
Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
"‘God's curse on anyone who has intercourse with his mother-in-law.' "And all the people will answer, ‘Amen!'
'Cursed is he who is intimate with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amein.
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say: Amen.
‘Cursed is anyone who has sexual intercourse with his mother-in-law.' And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.'
‘Cursed is the man who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people will say, ‘Let it be so.'
"Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law." All the people shall say, "Amen!"
Cursed is he that lies with his daughter-in-law: and all the people shall say, So be it. Cursed is he that lies with his wife’s sister: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
'Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.' And let all the people say, 'Amen!'
Cursed, be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say - Amen.
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the people shall say: Amen.
‘Cursed be the one who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.'
"‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.'
'Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
"A man will be cursed who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law." Then all the people will say, "Amen!"
‘The one who sleeps with his mother-in-law is cursed.' And all the people will say, ‘Amen!'
Cursid is he that slepith with his wyues modir; and al the puple schal seye, Amen!
`Cursed [is] he who is lying with his mother-in-law, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Leviticus 18:17, Leviticus 20:14
Reciprocal: Leviticus 20:11 - General Leviticus 20:12 - lie Ezekiel 22:10 - discovered
Cross-References
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Cursed [be] he that lieth with his mother in law,.... See
Leviticus 18:7. All these incestuous or brutal copulations may well be supposed to be done in secret:
and all the people shall say Amen; as abhorring such incest.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Compare Joshua 8:32-35. The solemnity was apparently designed only for the single occasion on which it actually took place.
Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13
The tribes appointed to stand on Gerizim to bless the people all sprang from the two wives of Jacob, Leah and Rachel. All the four tribes which sprang from the handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah are located on Ebal. But in order, as it would seem, to effect an equal division, two tribes are added to the latter from the descendants of the wives, that of Reuben, probably because he forfeited his primogeniture Genesis 49:4; and of Zebulun, apparently because he was the youngest son of Leah.
The transaction presents itself as a solemn renewal of the covenant made by God with Abraham and Isaac, but more especially with Jacob and his family. Accordingly the genealogical basis of the “twelve patriarchs” (compare Acts 7:12; Revelation 7:4 ff), the sons of Jacob, is here assumed. The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh are merged in the name of Joseph, their father; and Levi regains on this occasion his place collaterally with the others. “The Levites” of Deuteronomy 27:14 are no doubt “the priests the Levites” (compareJoshua 8:33; Joshua 8:33), in whom the ministerial character attaching to the tribe was more particularly manifested. It is noteworthy that the group of tribes which stood on Gerizim far exceeded the other in numbers and in importance, thus perhaps indicating that even by the Law the blessing should at length prevail.
Deuteronomy 27:15
The “Amen” attested the conviction of the utterers that the sentences to which they responded were true, just, and certain; so in Numbers 5:22, and in our own Commination Office, which is modelled after this ordinance of Moses.
Deuteronomy 27:15-26
Twelve curses against transgressions of the covenant. The first eleven are directed against special sins which are selected by way of example, the last comprehensively sums up in general terms and condemns all and every offence against God’s Law. Compare the marginal references.
