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Leviticus 20:10

If a man doith leccherie with `the wijf of another man, and doith auowtrie with `the wijf of his neiybore, bothe auowter and auowtresse die bi deeth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Punishment;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Adultery;   Capital Punishment;   Death Penalty;   Foes of the Home;   Home;   Penalty, Death;   Punishment;   The Topic Concordance - Adultery;   Execution;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Concubine;   Execution;   Fornication;   Marriage;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Divorce;   Immorality, Sexual;   Kill, Killing;   Marriage;   Punishment;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Divorce;   Law;   Punishments;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Capital Punishment;   Clean, Cleanness;   Crimes and Punishments;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adultery ;   Marriage;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Adultery;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Stoning;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Punishments;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Adultery;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adultery;   Bastard;   Divorce in Old Testament;   Genesis;   Hammurabi, the Code of;   Leviticus;   Punishments;   Purity;   Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abihu;   AḥiḴar;   Ass;   Capital Punishment;   Chastity;   Hammurabi;   Hatra'ah;   Leviticus;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
King James Version
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Lexham English Bible
"‘As for a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the man who commits adultery and the woman who commits adultery shall surely be put to death.
New Century Version
"‘If a man has sexual relations with his neighbor's wife, both the man and the woman are guilty of adultery and must be put to death.
New English Translation
If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
Amplified Bible
'The man who commits adultery with another's wife, even his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall most certainly be put to death.
New American Standard Bible
'If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the man that committeth adulterie with another mans wife, because he hath comitted adulterie with his neighbours wife, the adulterer and the adulteresse shall die the death.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Contemporary English Version
If any of you men have sex with another man's wife, both you and the woman will be put to death.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, that is, with the wife of a fellow countryman, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
Darby Translation
And a man that committeth adultery with a man's wife, who committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife,—the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death.
Easy-to-Read Version
"If a man has sexual relations with his neighbor's wife, both the man and the woman are guilty of adultery and must be put to death!
English Standard Version
"If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
George Lamsa Translation
And the man who commits adultery with another mans wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbors wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Good News Translation
If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman shall be put to death.
Christian Standard Bible®
“If a man commits adultery with a married woman—if he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
Literal Translation
And a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, the adulterer and the adulteress dying shall die.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He that breaketh wedlocke with eny mas wife, shal dye the death (both the aduouterer and ye aduouteresse) because he hath broken wedlocke with his neghbours wife.
American Standard Version
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Bible in Basic English
And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the man that breaketh wedlocke with another mans wyfe, euen he that breaketh wedlocke with his neyghbours wyfe, let be slayne both the adulterer and the adultresse.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
King James Version (1611)
And the man that committeth adulterie with another mans wife, euen he that committeth adulterie with his neighbours wife, the adulterer, and the adulteresse shall surely bee put to death.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbour, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.
English Revised Version
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Berean Standard Bible
If 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.
Young's Literal Translation
`And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife -- who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour -- the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.
Update Bible Version
And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife-who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife-the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife, [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
World English Bible
The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
New King James Version
"The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.
New Living Translation
"If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the man and the woman who have committed adultery must be put to death.
New Life Bible
‘If a man does sex sins with another man's wife, even his friend's wife, both the sinful man and woman must be put to death.
New Revised Standard
If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, any man, who committeth adultery with the wife of any other man, he that committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour shall surely be put to death - the adulterer, and the adulteress.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour’s wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.
Revised Standard Version
"If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
THE MESSAGE
"If a man commits adultery with another man's wife—the wife, say, of his neighbor—both the man and the woman, the adulterer and adulteress, must be put to death.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Contextual Overview

10 If a man doith leccherie with `the wijf of another man, and doith auowtrie with `the wijf of his neiybore, bothe auowter and auowtresse die bi deeth. 11 If a man slepith with hys stepdamme, and schewith `the schenschip of his fadir, bothe die bi deeth; her blood be on hem. 12 If ony man slepith with `his sones wijf, euer either die, for thei han wrouyt greet synne; her blood be on hem. 13 If a man slepith with a man, bi letcherie of a womman, euer either hath wrouyt vnleueful thing, die thei bi deeth; her blood be on hem. 14 He that weddith ouer his wijf hir moder, hath wrouyt greet synne; he schal be brent quyk with hem, and so greet vnleueful doynge schal not dwelle in the myddis of you. 15 He that doith letcherie with a greet beeste, ethir a litil beeste die bi deeth, also sle ye the beeste. 16 A womman that liggith vndur ony beeste, be slayn togidere with it; the blood `of hem be on hem. 17 He that takith his sistir `the douytir of his fadir, ether the douyter of his modir, and seeth hir filthe, and sche seeth the schenschip of the brothir, thei han wrouyt an vnleueful thing, bothe schulen be slayn in the siyt of her puple; for thei schewiden togidere her filthe, and thei schulen bere her wickidnesse. 18 If a man doith fleischly knowyng with a womman in the flux of monethe, and schewith hir filthe, and sche openeth the welle of hir blood, bothe schulen be slayn fro the myddis of her puple. 19 Thou schalt not diskyuere the filthe of thi modris sistir, and of thi fadris sistir; he, that doith this, schal `make nakid the schenschip of his fleisch, and bothe schulen bere her wickidnesse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the adulterer: Deuteronomy 22:22-24, 2 Samuel 12:13, Ezekiel 23:45-47, John 8:4, John 8:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:9 - a great Genesis 38:24 - let her Genesis 39:9 - how then Exodus 20:14 - General Leviticus 18:20 - General Numbers 5:13 - General Numbers 5:31 - bear Numbers 15:30 - doeth ought Judges 19:3 - speak Job 31:11 - an iniquity Psalms 50:18 - hast been partaker Proverbs 6:29 - he that Jeremiah 5:7 - they then Ezekiel 16:38 - as women Ezekiel 18:6 - neither hath defiled Ezekiel 22:11 - committed Malachi 3:5 - the sorcerers Matthew 1:19 - a public Matthew 5:27 - Thou Romans 7:3 - So then

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife,.... Which is a breach of the seventh command, Exodus 20:14;

[even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife: which is only an explanation of the former clause; though the Jewish writers, as Jarchi and Ben Gersom, say this is so expressed to except the wife of a stranger, or a Gentile; but it means whether a Gentile or an Israelite; and which may be confirmed by the instance of Phinehas slaying a prince of Israel, that lay with a Midianitish woman, Numbers 25:6:

the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death; on account of her that is espoused, by strangling, with a hard napkin within a soft one; and on account of her that is married, by casting stones; even both the adulterer and adulteress, as the Targum: and the Jews say b, strangling was thus performed; they that were strangled were fixed up to their knees in dung, and then they put a hard napkin within a soft one, and rolled it about his neck, and one drew it to him this way, and another drew it to him that way, until he expired: and there is no unlawful copulation punished with strangling, according to Maimonides c, but lying with another man's wife; and who observes, that the death which is spoken of in the law absolutely, that is, without specifying any kind of death, is strangling; but stoning seems rather meant, agreeably to Deuteronomy 22:24.

b Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 7. sect. 3. c Hilchot lssure Biah, c. 1. sect. 6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 20:10. Committeth adultery — To what has been said in Clarke's note on "Exodus 20:14", we may add, that the word adultery comes from the Latin adulterium, which is compounded of ad, to or with, and alter, another, or, according to Minshieu, of ad alterius forum, he that approaches to another man's bed.


 
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