Leviticus 20:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰And 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.

Leviticus 20:10 —

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Cross-References

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John 8:4-5
They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. …
Deuteronomy 22:22-24
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. …
Deuteronomy 5:18
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Leviticus 18:20
Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-21)

Sins against the seventh commandment are here ordered to be severely punished. These are sins which, of all others, fools are most apt to make a mock at; but God would teach those the heinousness of the guilt by the extremity of the punishment that would not otherwise be taught it. I. Lying with another man’s wife was made a capital crime. The adulterer and the adulteress that had joined in the si…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was “to be put to death” without describin…