Bible verse

Leviticus 18:20

You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.

Leviticus 18:20 · BSB

Leviticus 18:20 in context

The verses around it, from Leviticus 18.

16 You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.

17 You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

18 You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

19 You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.

20 You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.

21 You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

22 You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.

23 You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.

24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

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Leviticus 18:20 in other translations

KJV

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

ASV

And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

ERV

And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

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