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Leviticus 20:10-12

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20:10 If a man¹ 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.

¹tn 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.

²tc 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.

³sn See the note on Lev 18:7 above.

⁴tn See the note on v. 9 above.

⁵tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” (cf. KJV, ASV “they have wrought confusion”).

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