Family and Sexual Offenses

“If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death.(A) He has cursed his father or mother; his death is his own fault.[a]

10 “If a man commits adultery(B) with a married woman—if he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. 11 If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his father.[b](C) Both of them must be put to death; their death is their own fault.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 20:9 Lit his blood on him
  2. 20:11 Lit has uncovered his father’s nakedness
  3. 20:11 Lit their blood on them, also in vv. 12,13,16,27

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