30 A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.
Focused Passage
Deuteronomy 22:30
Covenant Order: Neighbor, Creation, and Sexual Holiness
The chapter moves from concrete acts of community care for neighbor and creature (vv. 1–8), through laws protecting created distinctions in the natural order (vv. 9–12), into a sustained legislation of sexual holiness, marital fidelity, and covenant purity (vv. 13–30), grounding neighbor-love and sexual ethics together in the covenant order Israel bears before God.
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References and Original Words
Verse 30
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Original words
A man אִ֖ישׁ H376 Noun - masculine singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker is not לֹא־ H3808 Adverb - Negative particle to marry יִקַּ֥ח H3947 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular his father’s אָבִ֑יו H1 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular wife אֵ֣שֶׁת H802 Noun - feminine singular construct so that he will not וְלֹ֥א H3808 Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle dishonor יְגַלֶּ֖ה H1540 Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular his father’s אָבִֽיו׃ס H1 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular marriage bed כְּנַ֥ף H3671 Noun - feminine singular construct
BSB notes
- Or uncover his father’s skirt