^20:10If a man²⁰ commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife,²¹ both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. ^20:11If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness.²² Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.²³

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Footnotes

20 Heb “And a man who.” The syntax here and at the beginning of the following verses elliptically mirrors that of v. 9, which justifies the rendering as a conditional clause.
21 The reading of the minuscule has been followed here (see the footnote a-a). The has a dittography, repeating “a man who commits adultery with the wife of” (see the explanation in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [], ). The duplication found in the is reflected in some English versions, e.g., , , , .
22 See the note on above.
23 See the note on v. above.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“ ‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.

“ ‘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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“If a man commits adultery with a married woman—if he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his father. Both of them must be put to death; their death is their own fault.

NLTNew Living Translation

“If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the man and the woman who have committed adultery must be put to death.

“If a man violates his father by having sex with one of his father’s wives, both the man and the woman must be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“ ‘As for a man who commits adultery with a man’s wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the man who commits adultery and the woman who commits adultery shall surely be put to death. As for a man who lies with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness; both of them shall be put to death—their blood is on them.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 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.

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