11 If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his father.[a](A) Both of them must be put to death; their death is their own fault.[b]

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Footnotes

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

11 “‘If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has dishonored his father.(A) Both the man and the woman are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.(B)

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