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Leviticus 18

Lev. 18:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Moreoverp thou shalt not
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
lie
shkobeth (Hebrew #7903)
a (sexual) lying with
KJV usage: X lie.
Pronounce: shek-o'-beth
Origin: from 7901
carnally
zera` (Hebrew #2233)
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV usage: X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.
Pronounce: zeh'-rah
Origin: from 2232
with thy neighbor’s
`amiyth (Hebrew #5997)
companionship; hence (concretely) a comrade or kindred man
KJV usage: another, fellow, neighbour.
Pronounce: aw-meeth'
Origin: from a primitive root meaning to associate
wife
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
, to defile
tame' (Hebrew #2930)
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
KJV usage: defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, X utterly.
Pronounce: taw-may'
Origin: a primitive root
thyself with her.
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Ex. 20:14• 14{i}Thou shalt not commit adultery.{/i} (Ex. 20:14)
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Prov. 6:25‑33• 25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart,{HR}Nor let her take thee with her eyelids;
 26For by means of a whorish woman [one cometh] to a piece of bread,{HR}And another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.
 27Can a man take fire in his bosom,{HR}And his garments not be burned?
 28Can one go upon hot coals,{HR}And his feet not be scorched?
 29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife:{HR}Whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
 30They do not despise a thief,{HR}If he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
 31And [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold;{HR}He shall give all the substance of his house.
 32Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding;{HR}He [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
 33A wound and contempt shall he get;{HR}And his reproach shall not be wiped away. (Prov. 6:25‑33)
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Matt. 5:27• 27Ye heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery; (Matt. 5:27)

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Lev. 20:10• 10{i}And a man that committeth adultery with a man's wife, who committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, —the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death.{/i} (Lev. 20:10)
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Ex. 20:14• 14{i}Thou shalt not commit adultery.{/i} (Ex. 20:14)
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Deut. 5:18• 18{i}Neither shalt thou commit adultery.{/i} (Deut. 5:18)
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Deut. 22:22,25• 22{i}If a man be found lying with a man's wife, they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away evil from Israel.{/i}
 25{i}But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her, then the man only that lay with her shall die;{/i} (Deut. 22:22,25)
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2 Sam. 11:3‑4,27• 3{i}and David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urijah the Hittite?{/i}
 4{i}And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; and she had purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned to her house.{/i}
 27{i}And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of Jehovah.{/i} (2 Sam. 11:3‑4,27)
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Prov. 6:25,29‑33• 25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart,{HR}Nor let her take thee with her eyelids;
 29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife:{HR}Whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
 30They do not despise a thief,{HR}If he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
 31And [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold;{HR}He shall give all the substance of his house.
 32Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding;{HR}He [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
 33A wound and contempt shall he get;{HR}And his reproach shall not be wiped away. (Prov. 6:25,29‑33)
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Mal. 3:5• 5And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)
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Matt. 5:27‑28• 27Ye heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery;
 28but I say unto you that every one that looketh at a woman to lust after her committed adultery with her already in his heart. (Matt. 5:27‑28)
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Rom. 2:22• 22thou that sayest not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? (Rom. 2:22)
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1 Cor. 6:9• 9What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God's kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men, (1 Cor. 6:9)
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Gal. 5:19• 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, (Gal. 5:19)
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Heb. 13:4• 4[Be] marriage in all [things] held in honour, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Heb. 13:4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to become unclean with her.

W. Kelly Translation

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And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife to become unclean with her.