Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"If a man has sexual relations with his uncle's wife, he has exposed his uncle's nakedness. They are to bear responsibility for punishment of their sin. They'll die childless.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Holman Bible
If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has shamed his uncle;
A Conservative Version
And if a man shall lay with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
American Standard Version
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Amplified
If there is a man who lies [intimately] with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they will bear their sin. They will die childless.
Bible in Basic English
And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children.
Darby Translation
And if a man lie with his aunt, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: their sin shall they bear: they shall die childless.
Julia Smith Translation
And a man who shall lie with his aunt, uncovered the nakedness of his uncle: they shall bear their sin: they shall die childless.
King James 2000
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As for a man who lies with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle's nakedness--they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Modern King James verseion
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If a man lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's privities: they shall bear their sin, and shall die childless.
NET Bible
If a man has sexual intercourse with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle's nakedness; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless.
New Heart English Bible
If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
The Emphasized Bible
And, any man, who lieth with his uncles wife, the shame of his uncle, hath he uncovered, - their sin, shall they bear - childless, shall they die.
Webster
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
World English Bible
If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Youngs Literal Translation
'And a man who lieth with his aunt, the nakedness of his uncle he hath uncovered; their sin they bear; childless they die.
Topics
Interlinear
Galah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 20:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Family And Sexual Offenses
19 "You are not to have sexual relations with your mother's sister or your father's sister, because that is laying bare the nakedness of his close relative. They'll continue to bear responsibility for their iniquity. 20 "If a man has sexual relations with his uncle's wife, he has exposed his uncle's nakedness. They are to bear responsibility for punishment of their sin. They'll die childless. 21 "If a man takes his brother's wife, it's immoral. He has exposed his brother's nakedness. They'll be childless."
Cross References
Leviticus 18:14
"You are not to expose the nakedness of your father's brother by having sexual relations with his wife. She's your aunt.
Job 18:19
He has no children or descendants within his own people; and no survivors where he once lived.
Psalm 109:13
May his descendants be eliminated, and their memory be erased from the next generation.
Jeremiah 22:30
This is what the LORD says: "Write this man off as childless, a man who does not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will succeed in sitting on the throne of David, or ever ruling in Judah again.'"
Luke 1:7
They had no children because Elizabeth was barren and because both of them were getting old.
Luke 1:25
"This is what the Lord did for me when he looked favorably on me and took away my public disgrace."
Luke 23:29
because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'