📜WEB · Deuteronomy 22:30
What does Deuteronomy 22:30 mean?
"A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt."
— Deuteronomy 22:30 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.
If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her, and lies with her, and they are found;
then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.
A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
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