Deuteronomy 27:23 Parallel Translations
NASB: 'Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' (NASB ©1995)
GWT: "Whoever has sexual intercourse with his mother-in-law will be cursed." Then all the people will say amen.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
ASV: Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
BBE: Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it.
DBY: Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law! And all the people shall say, Amen.
ERV: Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
JPS: Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say: Amen.
WBS: Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the people shall say, Amen.
WEB: 'Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.' All the people shall say,'Amen.'
YLT: Cursed is he who is lying with his mother-in-law, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:23 Cross References
XREF:Leviticus 20:14 If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is immorality; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no immorality in your midst. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 27:23 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his {n} mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
(n) Meaning, his wife's mother.
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 Cursed Law Lies Lieth Lying Mother-in-law Relations Sex Sleeps
PREV:Amen Cursed Lies Lying Mother Mother-In-Law Relations Sex Sleeps
NEXT:Amen Cursed Lies Lying Mother Mother-In-Law Relations Sex Sleeps
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