Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
Holman Bible
“A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.
International Standard Version
"A man must not marry his father's wife, so that he will not dishonor his father's memory."
A Conservative Version
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
American Standard Version
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
Amplified
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Bible in Basic English
A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.
Julia Smith Translation
A man shall not take his father's wife and shall not uncover his father's wing.
King James 2000
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A man may not take the wife of his father, and [so] {he may not dishonor his father}.
Modern King James verseion
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
No man shall take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's covering.
NET Bible
A man may not marry his father's former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
New Heart English Bible
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
The Emphasized Bible
A man shall not take his father's wife, - neither shall he turn aside his father's coverlet.
Webster
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
World English Bible
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
Youngs Literal Translation
'A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
Topics
Interlinear
Laqach
'ab
אב
'ab
father, chief, families, desire, fatherless , forefathers , patrimony, prince, principal
Usage: 1214
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 22:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
29 then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days. 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 18:8
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.
Deuteronomy 27:20
Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; for he uncovereth his father's skirt! And all the people shall say, Amen.
Leviticus 20:11
And a man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall certainly be put to death; their blood is upon them.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.
Ruth 3:9
And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth, thy handmaid: spread thy skirt over thy handmaid; for thou hast the right of redemption.
Ezekiel 16:8
And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, and behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; and I swore unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest mine.
1 Corinthians 5:13
But those without God judges. Remove the wicked person from amongst yourselves.