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Lexicon :: Strong's H7901 - šāḵaḇ

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שָׁכַב
Transliteration
šāḵaḇ
Pronunciation
shaw-kab'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2381

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁכַב shâkab, shaw-kab'; a primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose):—× at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 212x

The KJV translates Strong's H7901 in the following manner: lie (106x), sleep (48x), lie down (43x), rest (3x), lien (2x), miscellaneous (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 212x
The KJV translates Strong's H7901 in the following manner: lie (106x), sleep (48x), lie down (43x), rest (3x), lien (2x), miscellaneous (10x).

  1. to lie down

    1. (Qal)

      1. to lie, lie down, lie on

      2. to lodge

      3. to lie (of sexual relations)

      4. to lie down (in death)

      5. to rest, relax (fig)

    2. (Niphal) to be lain with (sexually)

    3. (Pual) to be lain with (sexually)

    4. (Hiphil) to make to lie down

    5. (Hophal) to be laid

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁכַב shâkab, shaw-kab'; a primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose):—× at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
STRONGS H7901: Abbreviations
שָׁכַב (LagBN 63) verb lie down (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; שכב Ecclus 47:23 (in death), משכב bed Ecclesiasticus 40:5; Ecclesiasticus 47:20d, = death bed Ecclesiasticus 46:19; Phoenician שכב, משכב (see מ׳ 1 below), Lzb375; Ethiopic bdb101103 lie, Aramaic שְׁכַב, bdb101104; Nabataean משכבא couch; Arabic bdb101201 only pour out (water, tears), be poured out (compare Hiph. below, and LagBN 63)); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שׁ׳ Genesis 26:10 +, etc.; Imperfect יִשְׁכַּב Genesis 30:15 +, 3rd person masculine plural יִשְׁכְּבֻן 1 Samuel 2:22, יִשְׁכָּב֑וּן Joshua 2:8; Job 30:17, etc.; Imperative masculine singular שְׁכַב 2 Samuel 13:5; Ezekiel 4:4, שִׁכְבָה Genesis 39:7, 12, etc.; Infinitive absolute שָׁכֹב Leviticus 15:24; construct שְׁכַב 1 Kings 1:21 +, suffix שָׁכְבוֺ Ruth 3:4, שִׁכְבָהּ Genesis 19:33, 35, שָׁכְבְּךָ Deuteronomy 6:7 + 2 times; Participle שֹׁכֵב Genesis 28:13 +, feminine שֹׁכֶ֫בֶת Micah 7:5; Ruth 3:8, etc.; —
1. lie down (sometimes opposed to קוּם, הֵקִיץ):
a. Judges 5:27 (prostrated by blow, + כָּרַע, נָפַל).
b. to sleep, Genesis 19:4 (J), Genesis 28:11 (E), 1 Samuel 3:5; Deuteronomy 7:7; Proverbs 6:22 + often; read וַיִּשְׁכַּב also (for וַיַּשְׁכֵּם) 1 Samuel 9:26 Greek Version of the LXX Th We Dr and modern; שׁ׳ + יָשֵׁן sleep 1 Kings 19:5; Psalm 3:6; Psalm 4:9, compare Proverbs 3:24 (twice in verse), + נִרְדָּם Jonah 1:5; = be lying 1 Samuel 3:2, 3; 1 Samuel 26:5 (all בְּ local), 1 Samuel 26:7; 1 Samuel 4:5 (accusative of congnate meaning with verb noon-repose), 2 Samuel 13:8, compare שֹׁכֵב בְּלֶביָֿם Proverbs 23:34, of two lying (together, for warmth) Ecclesiastes 4:11; + be sleeping 1 Samuel 26:7 = keep lying, with עַד Judges 16:3; 1 Samuel 3:15; Ruth 3:13; Proverbs 6:9; emphasis on resting, Leviticus 26:6 (H), Job 11:18; token of mourning, וְשָׁכַב אָ֑רְצָה (וְלָן) 2 Samuel 12:16, compare 2 Samuel 13:21, בַּשָּׂק שׁ׳ 1 Kings 21:27, בֵּין שְׁפַתָּ֑יִם שׁ׳ Psalm 68:14 (of indolence?); figurative of prostration by disease Psalm 41:9; among foes Psalm 57:5; of humiliation Jeremiah 3:25; with עַל of thing: land Genesis 28:13 (J), usually bed 2 Samuel 13:5; 1 Kings 21:4; Leviticus 15:4, 24, 26, compare Leviticus 15:20, for midday repose 2 Samuel 4:7.
c. lie on (עַל) one's side Ezekiel 4:4 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 4:6, 9 (symbolic).
d. lie, עַל person 1 Kings 3:19 (fatally), 2 Kings 4:34 (to revive).
e. lie בְּחֵיק, of lamb (i.e. be cherished) 2 Samuel 12:3, of woman Micah 7:5 (intimacy), 1 Kings 1:2 (vital warmth); lie down for copulation Genesis 19:33, 35 (of woman, see 3 below; both opposed to קוּם).
2. = lodge (for night), (שָׁ֫מָּהׅ שׁ׳ Joshua 2:1 (E), 2 Kings 4:11, compare 2 Kings 9:16 (yet perhaps = lie ill), Leviticus 14:47 (בְּ local).
3..of sexual relations, lie with: subject man, with עִם Genesis 30:15, 16; Genesis 39:7, 12, 14 (J), Exodus 22:13 (E), Deuteronomy 22:22 + 8 times Deuteronomy; 2 Samuel 11:4, 11; 2 Samuel 12:11, 24; Leviticus 15:33; with אֶת feminine with (MT אֹתָהּ, etc., originally אִתָּהּ, etc., see Dr 2 Samuel 13:14 and II. אֵת, above), Genesis 26:10; Genesis 34:2, 7; Genesis 35:22 (all J), 1 Samuel 2:22 (omitted by Greek Version of the LXX and modern), 2 Samuel 13:14; Ezekiel 23:8 (figurative), Leviticus 15:24 (שָׁכֹב יִשְׁכַּב), Numbers 5:19, also (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb שִׁכְבַתזֶֿרַע) Numbers 5:13; Leviticus 15:18; Leviticus 19:20; with accusative (suffix) feminine Deuteronomy 28:30 Kt (see [שָׁגֵל]); with אֵצֶל feminine Genesis 39:10 (J); with אֵת of a man (sodomy), Leviticus 18:22; Leviticus 20:13 (both H; with accusative of congnate meaning with verb מִשְׁכְּבֵי אִשָּׁה); with עִםבְּֿהֵמָה Deuteronomy 27:21; Leviticus 22:18 (H); subject woman, with עִם of a man Genesis 19:32, 34, 35 (J) 2 Samuel 13:11; אֵת of a man Genesis 19:33, 34 (compare 1e above).
4.
a. lie down in death, Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 43:17 (opposed to קוּם), Ezekiel 31:18; Ezekiel 32:27, 28, 29, 30; Job 14:12 (opposed to קוּם, הֵקִיץ), וְאֶשְׁקוֺט שׁ׳ Job 3:12; be lying (dead) Isaiah 51:20; Lamentations 2:21.
b. especially in phrase עִם אֲבוֺתָיו שׁ׳ lie down with his fathers, of kings 1 Kings 1:21; 1 Kings 2:10 + 35 times Kings Chronicles, compare Genesis 47:30 (J) Deuteronomy 31:16, and (with אֵת) 2 Samuel 7:12
c. in grave, בְּבֵיתוֺ Isaiah 14:18 (opposed to מִקִּבְרְךָ), שֹׁכְבֵי קֶבֶר Psalm 88:6; לֶעָפָר Job 7:21, עַלעֿ׳ Job 20:11; Job 21:26; in She'ôl Ezekiel 32:21; in Gehenna (?) Isaiah 50:11.
5. figurative = relax: Job 30:17 my gnawing pains do not sleep; = have rest, לִבּוֺ לֹא שׁ׳ Ecclesiastes 2:23.
† Niph. Pu. = be lain with (sexually; subject woman), only as Qr for Kt [שָׁגֵל] Niph. Pu. which see.
† Hiph. lay, Perfect 3rd person feminine singular הִשְׁכִּיבָה with accusative puer. + בְּחֵיק 1 Kings 3:20, so Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular suffix וַתַּשְׁכִּיבֵהוּ 1 Kings 3:20, compare (עַלמִֿטָּה) 1 Kings 17:19; 2 Kings 4:21; Infinitive absolute הַשְׁכֵּב אוֺתָם אַ֫רְצָה 2 Samuel 8:2 making them lie down on ground; Imperfect also lay בַּמִּשְׁכָּב 2 Chronicles 16:14 (of burial); נִבְלֵי שָׁמַיִם מִי יַשְׁכִּיב Job 38:37 i.e. tip them so that contents may flow out (compare Arabic bdb101202 above).
† Hoph. Participle מֻשְׁכָּב 2 Kings 4:32 laid עַלמִֿטָּה; Perfect consecutive וְהֻשְׁכַּב Ezekiel 32:32 shall be laid (in death), with בְּתוֺךְ and אֵת person (with); so Imperative masculine singular הָשְׁכְּבָה Ezekiel 32:19 (with אֵת person only).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:4; 19:32; 19:33; 19:33; 19:33; 19:34; 19:34; 19:35; 19:35; 19:35; 26:10; 26:10; 28:11; 28:13; 28:13; 30:15; 30:15; 30:16; 34:2; 34:7; 35:22; 39:7; 39:7; 39:10; 39:12; 39:12; 39:14; 47:30

Exodus

22:13

Leviticus

14:47; 15:4; 15:18; 15:20; 15:24; 15:24; 15:24; 15:26; 15:33; 18:22; 19:20; 20:13; 22:18; 26:6

Numbers

5:13; 5:19

Deuteronomy

6:7; 7:7; 22:22; 27:21; 28:30; 31:16

Joshua

2:1; 2:8

Judges

5:27; 16:3

Ruth

3:4; 3:8; 3:13

1 Samuel

2:22; 2:22; 3:2; 3:3; 3:5; 3:15; 4:5; 9:26; 26:5; 26:7; 26:7

2 Samuel

4:7; 7:12; 8:2; 11:4; 11:11; 12:3; 12:11; 12:16; 12:24; 13:5; 13:5; 13:8; 13:11; 13:14; 13:14; 13:21

1 Kings

1:2; 1:21; 1:21; 2:10; 3:19; 3:20; 3:20; 17:19; 19:5; 21:4; 21:27

2 Kings

4:11; 4:21; 4:32; 4:34; 9:16

2 Chronicles

16:14

Job

3:12; 7:21; 11:18; 14:12; 20:11; 21:26; 30:17; 30:17; 38:37

Psalms

3:6; 41:9; 57:5; 68:14; 88:6

Proverbs

3:24; 6:9; 6:22; 23:34

Ecclesiastes

2:23; 4:11

Isaiah

14:8; 14:18; 43:17; 50:11; 51:20

Jeremiah

3:25

Lamentations

2:21

Ezekiel

4:4; 4:4; 4:6; 4:9; 23:8; 31:18; 32:19; 32:21; 32:27; 32:28; 32:29; 32:30; 32:32

Jonah

1:5

Micah

7:5; 7:5

H7901

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Strong's Number H7901 matches the Hebrew שָׁכַב (šāḵaḇ),
which occurs 213 times in 194 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 19:4–Deu 27:20)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:32 - Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:33 - That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:35 - So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - Then Abimelek said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:13 - There above it[fn] stood the LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:2 - When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - Meanwhile, Jacob’s sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in[fn] Israel by sleeping with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 - While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 - and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:10 - And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12 - She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:14 - she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:30 - but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried.” “I will do as you say,” he said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:16 - “If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:19 - “Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:27 - because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:47 - Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash their clothes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:4 - “ ‘Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and anything he sits on will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:18 - When a man has sexual relations with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:20 - “ ‘Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as during her period.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33 - for a woman in her monthly period, for a man or a woman with a discharge, and for a man who has sexual relations with a woman who is ceremonially unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:20 - “ ‘If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment.[fn] Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:11 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:12 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:18 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:20 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. They will be held responsible; they will die childless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:6 - “ ‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 - The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion that does not rest till it devours its prey and drinks the blood of its victims.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:9 - Like a lion they crouch and lie down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse them? “May those who bless you be blessed and those who curse you be cursed!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:7 - Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:19 - Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:22 - If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 - If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:25 - But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:28 - If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:29 - he shall pay her father fifty shekels[fn] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:12 - If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:13 - Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:20 - “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he dishonors his father’s bed.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”


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