Leviticus - 20:12



12 "'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 20:12.

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And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
If any man lie with his daughter in law, let both die, because they have done a heinous crime: their blood be upon them.
And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall certainly be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood is upon them.
And a man who lieth with his daughter-in-law, both of them are certainly put to death; confusion they have made; their blood is on them.
And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have worked confusion; their blood shall be on them.
And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them.
And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have wrought corruption; their blood shall be upon them.
If any man will have slept with his daughter-in-law, both shall die, for they have acted according to wickedness. So let their blood be upon them.
Vir qui coierit cum nuru sua, moriendo morientur ambo: flagitium admiserunt, sanguis eorum super eos.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

They have wrought confusion - See Leviticus 18, and especially the note on Leviticus 18:6 (note).

If a man lie with his daughter in law,.... His son's wife, whether in the lifetime of his son, or after his death, or whether she was espoused or married, according to the above tradition (f):
both of them shall surely be put to death; it being a breach of the law in Leviticus 18:15; and this is the penalty annexed to it, even death:
they have wrought confusion: have been guilty of a shocking and shameful mixture, as Jarchi and Ben Gersom, as well as confounded the degrees of relation and affinity:
their blood shall be upon them; it being a capital crime, their, blood shall be shed for it; they shall be found guilty of death by stoning, as the Targum of Jonathan.
(f) Misn. ut supra. (Sanhedrin, c. 7. sect. 4.)

Confusion - By perverting the order which God hath appointed, and making the same off - spring both his own child and his grandchild.

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