Exodus Chapter 20 verse 14 Holy Bible

ASV Exodus 20:14

Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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BBE Exodus 20:14

Do not be false to the married relation.
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DARBY Exodus 20:14

Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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KJV Exodus 20:14

Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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WBT Exodus 20:14

Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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WEB Exodus 20:14

"You shall not commit adultery.
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YLT Exodus 20:14

`Thou dost not commit adultery.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - Thou shalt not commit adultery. Our second duty towards our neighbour is to respect the bond on which the family is based, and that conjugal honour which to the true man is dearer than life. Marriage, according to the original institution, made the husband and wife "one flesh" (Genesis 2:24); and to break in upon this sacramental union was at once a crime and a profanity. Adulteresses and their paramours were in most ancient nations liable to be punished with death by the injured party; but the adultery of a married man with an unmarried woman was thought lightly cf. The precept of the Decalogue binds both man and woman equally. Our Lord's expansion of this commandment (Matthew 5:27-32) is parallel to his expansion of the preceding one (ib, 21-26). He shows that there are adulterous marriages in countries where the law gives a facility of divorce, and that without any overt act adultery may be committed in the heart.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Thou shalt not commit adultery.--Next to the duty of respecting a man's life is placed that of respecting his domestic peace and honour. Adultery is an invasion of the household, a destruction of the bond which unites the family, a dissolution of that contract which is the main basis of social order. It was forbidden by all civilised communities, and in uncivilised ones frequently punished with death. The Mosaic enactments on the subject are peculiar chiefly in the absolute equality on which they place the man and the woman. Adulterers are as hateful as adulteresses, and are as surely to be put to death (Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22-24, &c.). The man who acts treacherously against "the wife of his covenant" is as great a sinner as the woman who breaks the marriage bond (Malachi 2:14-16). There is "no respect of persons" and no respect of sexes with God.