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10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife,
even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Lying with another man's wife was made a capital crime. The adulterer and the adulteress that had joined in the sin must fall alike under the sentence: they shall both be put to death, Le 20:10. Long before this, even in Job's time, this was reputed a heinous crime and an iniquity to be punished by the judges, Job 31:11. It is a presumptuous contempt of an ordinance of God, and a violation of his covenant, Pr 2:17. It is an irreparable wrong to the injured husband, and debauches the mind and conscience of both the offenders as much as any thing. It is a sin which headstrong and unbridled lusts hurry men violently to, and therefore it needs such a powerful restraint as this. It is a sin which defiles a land and brings down God's judgments upon it, which disquiets families, and tends to the ruin of all virtue and religion, and therefore is fit to be animadverted upon by the conservators of the public peace: but see Joh 8:3-11.
11 And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his
father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
12 And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely
be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
Incestuous connections, whether by marriage or not. 1. Some of them were to be punished with death, as a man's lying with his father's wife, Le 20:11. Reuben would have been put to death for his crime (Ge 35:22) if this law had been then made. It was the sin of the incestuous Corinthian, for which he was to be delivered unto Satan, 1Co 5:1,5. A man's debauching his daughter-in-law, or his mother-in-law, or his sister, was likewise to be punished with death, Le 20:12,14,17. 2. Others of them God would punish with the curse of barrenness, as a man's defiling his aunt, or his brother's wife (Le 20:19-21): They shall die childless. Those that keep not within the divine rules of marriage forfeit the