Leviticus Chapter 18 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Leviticus 18:20

And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.
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BBE Leviticus 18:20

And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.
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DARBY Leviticus 18:20

And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to become unclean with her.
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KJV Leviticus 18:20

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.
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WBT Leviticus 18:20

Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.
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WEB Leviticus 18:20

"'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
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YLT Leviticus 18:20

`And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - The second prohibition is, Thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife - a prohibition already made in other words in the ten commandments. The punishment for adultery is death by stoning (chapter 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22; John 9:5) - a more severe penalty than was usually inflicted in other nations.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Thy neighbour's wife.--For committing adultery, which is here branded as a defilement, whether with a betrothed or married woman, both guilty parties incurred the penalty of death by stoning. (See Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22; Ezekiel 16:38; Ezekiel 16:40; John 8:5.) In Egypt the adulterer received a thousand strokes with a stick, and the guilty woman had her nose cut off, and to this day the criminal wife among the Bedouins is executed by her husband, father, or brother, without any mercy. Both criminals were also punished with death among other Eastern nations.