Leviticus 18:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
"'Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her.

New Living Translation
“Do not defile yourself by having sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife.

English Standard Version
And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.

Berean Study Bible
You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.

New American Standard Bible
And you shall not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.

NASB 1995
'You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor's wife, to be defiled with her.

NASB 1977
‘And you shall not have intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.

Amplified Bible
You shall not have intimate relations with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.

Christian Standard Bible
You are not to have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are not to have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife, defiling yourself with her."

Contemporary English Version
Don't have sex with another man's wife--that would make you unclean.

Good News Translation
Do not have intercourse with another man's wife; that would make you ritually unclean.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife and become unclean with her.

International Standard Version
"You are not to have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and thereby become ceremonially unclean with her."

NET Bible
You must not have sexual intercourse with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

New King James Version
Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, to defile yourself with her.

King James 2000 Bible
Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

New Heart English Bible
"'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

World English Bible
"'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

American King James Version
Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.

A Faithful Version
And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife to defile yourself with her.

Darby Bible Translation
And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to become unclean with her.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Moreouer, thou shalt not giue thy selfe to thy neighbours wife by carnall copulation, to be defiled with her.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Moreouer, thou shalt not lye with thy neighbours wyfe, to defile her with seede.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thou shalt not lye with thy neghbours wife to medle with her, for to defyle thy self withall.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Thou shalt not lye with thy neghbours wife, to defyle thi selfe with her.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And you do not give your seed [from] intercourse to the wife of your fellow, to become unclean with her.

Young's Literal Translation
'And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

Smith's Literal Translation
To thy neighbor's wife thou shalt not give thy effusion of seed to be defiled with her.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You shall not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, nor shall you be defiled by the mingling of seed.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And do not expel the seed of your copulation into the wife of your neighbor and be defiled with her.

Lamsa Bible
Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife to defile yourself with her.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
















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