Lexicon :: Strong's H7901 - šāḵaḇ

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

“Come, let’s get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father’s line.”

Then Abimelech said, “What have you done to us? One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”

He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place.

The LORD was standing there beside him,[fn] saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land on which you are lying.

But Leah replied to her, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes? ”

“Well then,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

When Shechem ​— ​son of Hamor the Hivite, who was the region’s chieftain ​— ​saw her, he took her and raped her.

Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter, and such a thing should not be done.

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had twelve sons:

After some time his master’s wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her.[fn]

She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Sleep with me! ” But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.

“When I rest with my ancestors, carry me away from Egypt and bury me in their burial place.”

Joseph answered, “I will do what you have asked.”

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and he sleeps with her, he must certainly pay the bridal price for her to be his wife.

“Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal must be put to death.

“For it is his only covering; it is the clothing for his body.[fn] What will he sleep in? And if he cries out to me, I will listen because I am gracious.

“Whoever lies down in the house is to wash his clothes, and whoever eats in it is to wash his clothes.

“Any bed the man with the discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.

“If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

“Anything she lies on during her menstruation will become unclean, and anything she sits on will become unclean.

“If a man sleeps with her, and blood from her menstruation gets on him, he will be unclean for seven days, and every bed he lies on will become unclean.

“Any bed she lies on during the days of her discharge will be like her bed during menstrual impurity; any furniture she sits on will be unclean as in her menstrual period.

“a woman who is in her menstrual period; anyone who has a discharge, whether male or female; and a man who sleeps with a woman who is unclean.”

“You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.

“If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be punishment.[fn] They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

“If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his father.[fn] Both of them must be put to death; their death is their own fault.[fn]

“If a man sleeps with a menstruating woman and has sexual intercourse with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.

“If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his uncle;[fn] they will bear their guilt and die childless.

“I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

“and sleeps with another,[fn] but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn’t caught in the act;

“The priest will require the woman to take an oath and will say to her, ‘If no man has slept with you, if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, be unaffected by this bitter water that brings a curse.

A people rise up like a lioness;

they rouse themselves like a lion.

They will not lie down until they devour the prey

and drink the blood of the slain.

He crouches, he lies down like a lion

or a lioness ​— ​who dares to rouse him?

Those who bless you will be blessed,

and those who curse you will be cursed.

“Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

“Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

“If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

“But if the man encounters an engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die.

“If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered,

“If he is a poor man, do not sleep with the garment he has given as security.

“‘The one who sleeps with his father’s wife is cursed, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’[fn]

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’