Leviticus 20:7

Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience

20:7 “‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:10

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.

Leviticus 20:17

20:17 “‘If a man has sexual intercourse with 3  his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. 4  He has exposed his sister’s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity. 5 

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 tn Heb “takes.” The verb “to take” in this context means “to engage in sexual intercourse,” though some English versions translate it as “marry” (e.g., NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV).

4 tn Regarding the “cut off” penalty, see the note on Lev 7:20.

5 tn See the note on Lev 17:16 above.