(A)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

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“‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife;(A) that would dishonor your father.(B)

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The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

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30 [a](A)A man shall not take [b]his father’s wife in marriage, so that he does not [c]uncover his father’s garment.

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  1. Deuteronomy 22:30 Ch 23:1 in Heb
  2. Deuteronomy 22:30 I.e., a stepmother, not his birth mother
  3. Deuteronomy 22:30 Idiom for violating his father’s marriage

30 A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.[a](A)

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  1. Deuteronomy 22:30 In Hebrew texts this verse (22:30) is numbered 23:1.

30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

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20 (A)Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, because he has [a]uncovered his father’s garment.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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  1. Deuteronomy 27:20 Idiom for violated his father’s marriage

20 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he dishonors his father’s bed.”(A)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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