Deuteronomy 27:20 Parallel Translations

"Whoever has sexual intercourse with his father's wife will be cursed. He has disgraced his father." Then all the people will say amen.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

ASV:

Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

BBE:

Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.

DBY:

Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; for he uncovereth his father's skirt! And all the people shall say, Amen.

ERV:

Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

JPS:

Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say: Amen.

WBS:

Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, Amen.

WEB:

'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' All the people shall say,'Amen.'

YLT:

Cursed is he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

Deuteronomy 27:20 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 22:30 "A man shall not take his father's wife so that he will not uncover his father's skirt.

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:

27:20 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's {m} skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
(m) In committing wickedness against him, Le 20:11, De 22:30, Eze 22:10

MHC:

27:11-26 The six tribes appointed for blessing, were all children of the free women, for to such the promise belongs, Ga 4:31. Levi is here among the rest. Ministers should apply to themselves the blessing and curse they preach to others, and by faith set their own Amen to it. And they must not only allure people to their duty with the promises of a blessing, but awe them with the threatenings of a curse, by declaring that a curse would be upon those who do such things. To each of the curses the people were to say, Amen. It professed their faith, that these, and the like curses, were real declarations of the wrath of God against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, not one jot of which shall fall to the ground. It was acknowledging the equity of these curses. Those who do such things deserve to fall, and lie under the curse. Lest those who were guilty of other sins, not here mentioned, should think themselves safe from the curse, the last reaches all. Not only those who do the evil which the law forbids, but those also who omit the good which the law requires. Without the atoning blood of Christ, sinners can neither have communion with a holy God, nor do any thing acceptable to him; his righteous law condemns every one who, at any time, or in any thing, transgresses it. Under its awful curse we remain as transgressors, until the redemption of Christ is applied to our hearts. Wherever the grace of God brings salvation, it teaches the believer to deny ungodliness and wordly lusts, to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, consenting to, and delighting in the words of God's law, after the inward man. In this holy walk, true peace and solid joy are to be found.

CONC:

Amen Bed Cursed Dishonors Father's Lies Lieth Lying Relations Sex Shame Skirt Sleeps Uncovered Uncovereth Wife

Amen Bed Cursed Dishonors Lies Relations Sex Shame Skirt Sleeps Uncovered Uncovereth Wife

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