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Deuteronomy 22:30
30A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.
Deuteronomy 22:30 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"A man shall not take his father's wife, so that he does not uncover his father's nakedness.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor uncover his father’s bed.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“A man must not marry his father’s former wife, for this would violate his father.
Context of Deuteronomy 22:30
28If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives. A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.
Read all of Deuteronomy 22Deuteronomy 22:30 word by word
לֹא־יִקַּ֥ח אִ֖ישׁ אֶת־אֵ֣שֶׁת אָבִ֑יו וְלֹ֥א יְגַלֶּ֖ה כְּנַ֥ף אָבִֽיו׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 22:30
- Leviticus 27:20If, however, they do not redeem the field, or if they have sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed.
- Leviticus 18:8“ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.
- Leviticus 20:11“ ‘If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
- 1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.
- Ruth 3:9“Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she said. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer of our family.”
- Ezekiel 16:8“ ‘Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 22:30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30A man shall not take his father's wife - This is to be understood as referring to the case of a stepmother. A man in his old age may have married a young wife, and on his dying, his son by a former wife may desire to espouse her: this the law prohibits. It was probably on pretense of having broken this law, that Solomon put his brother Adonijah to death, because he had desired to have his father's concubine to wife, 1 Kings 2:13-25.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-30Verses 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.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 30The phrase his father’s wife does not refer to a man’s own mother. Sexual relations with one’s mother were considered a more serious offense. Such acts were clearly forbidden in the law of Moses (see Leviticus 18:7–8, 29).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-3013-30. If a man take a wife, &c.--The regulations that follow might be imperatively needful in the then situation of the Israelites; and yet, it is not necessary that we should curiously and impertinently inquire into them. So far was it from being unworthy of God to leave such things upon record, that the enactments must heighten our admiration of His wisdom and goodness in the management of a people so perverse and so given to irregular passions. Nor is…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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