Leviticus 20:10-12
20:10 If a man 1 commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, 2 both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
20:11 If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. 3 Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. 4
20:12 If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; 5 their blood guilt is on themselves.
1 tn Heb “And a man who.” The syntax here and at the beginning of the following verses elliptically mirrors that of v. 9, which justifies the rendering as a conditional clause.
2 tc The reading of the LXX minuscule mss has been followed here (see the BHS footnote a-a). The MT has a dittography, repeating “a man who commits adultery with the wife of” (see the explanation in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 328). The duplication found in the MT is reflected in some English versions, e.g., KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV.
3 sn See the note on Lev 18:7 above.
4 tn See the note on v. 9 above.
5 tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” (cf. KJV, ASV “they have wrought confusion”).