Deuteronomy 22:30 Parallel Translations
NASB: "A man shall not take his father's wife so that he will not uncover his father's skirt. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: A man must never marry his father's wife because this would disgrace his father.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
ASV: A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
BBE: A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.
DBY: A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
ERV: A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
JPS: A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
WBS: A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
WEB: A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
YLT: 'A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy 22:30 Cross References
XREF:Leviticus 18:8 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.

Leviticus 20:11 If there is a man who lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.

Deuteronomy 27:20 'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 22:30 A man shall not {l} take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
(l) He shall not lie with his stepmother, meaning by this all other variations forbidden in Le 18:1-30.
WES: 22:30 Take - To wife. So this respects the state, and the next branch speaks of the act only.
MHC: 22:13-30 These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
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