Proverbs 6:29
ContextNETBible | So it is with 1 the one who has sex with 2 his neighbor’s wife; no one 3 who touches 4 her will escape 5 punishment. 6 |
XREF | Ge 12:18,19; Ge 20:4-7; Ge 26:10,11; Le 20:10; 2Sa 11:3,4; 2Sa 12:9,10; 2Sa 16:21; Jer 5:8,9; Eze 22:11; Mal 3:5; 1Co 7:1 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “thus is the one.” 2 tn Heb “who goes in to” (so NAB, NASB). The Hebrew verb בּוֹא (bo’, “to go in; to enter”) is used throughout scripture as a euphemism for the act of sexual intercourse. Cf. NIV, NRSV, NLT “who sleeps with”; NCV “have sexual relations with.” 3 tn Heb “anyone who touches her will not.” 4 sn The verb “touches” is intended here to be a euphemism for illegal sexual contact (e.g., Gen 20:6). 5 tn Heb “will be exempt from”; NASB, NLT “will not go unpunished.” 6 tn The verb is יִנָּקֶה (yinnaqeh), the Niphal imperfect from נָקָה (naqah, “to be empty; to be clean”). From it we get the adjectives “clean,” “free from guilt,” “innocent.” The Niphal has the meanings (1) “to be cleaned out” (of a plundered city; e.g., Isa 3:26), (2) “to be clean; to be free from guilt; to be innocent” (Ps 19:14), (3) “to be free; to be exempt from punishment” [here], and (4) “to be free; to be exempt from obligation” (Gen 24:8). |