Cross references

Deuteronomy 27:20

‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:20 BSB
  1. a Or uncovered his father’s skirt

Deuteronomy 27:20 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 22:30 (5 votes) and Leviticus 18:8 (4 votes). 37 other verses point back to it. It links with 22 other books, from Genesis 4 to Galatians 1.

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Which verses does Deuteronomy 27:20 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.

  2. You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.

  3. If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

  4. It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

  5. 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:

  6. Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.

  7. So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

  8. These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.

  9. In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.

  10. Amos 2:72 votes

    They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

Which verses point to Deuteronomy 27:20?

The 10 strongest of 37.