Deuteronomy 22:30
A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.
Note Or uncover his father’s skirt
A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.
A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- a man shall
- This is to be understood as referring to the case of a stepmother. A man in his old age may have married a young woman, and on his dying, his son by another, or a former wife, may desire to espouse her; which is here forbidden.
- Deuteronomy 27:20; Leviticus 18:8; Leviticus 20:11; 1 Corinthians 5:1, 13
- discover
- Ruth 3:9; Ezekiel 16:8