Imamat 20:11

20:11 If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. ¹  Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. ² 

Ulangan 22:30

22:30 (23:1) ³  A man may not marry ⁴  his father’s former ⁵  wife and in this way dishonor his father. ⁶ 

Yosua 2:19

2:19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death – we are innocent in that case! ⁷  But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible. ⁸ 

Yosua 2:2

2:2 The king of Jericho received this report: “Note well! ⁹  Israelite men have come here tonight ¹⁰  to spy on the land.”

1 Samuel 1:16

1:16 Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, ¹¹  for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”

¹ sn See the note on Lev 18:7 above.

² tn See the note on v. 9 above.

³ sn Beginning with 22:30, the verse numbers through 23:25 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 22:30 ET = 23:1 HT, 23:1 ET = 23:2 HT, 23:2 ET = 23:3 HT, etc., through 23:25 ET = 23:26 HT. With 24:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

⁴ tn Heb “take.” In context this refers to marriage, as in the older English expression “take a wife.”

⁵ sn This presupposes either the death of the father or their divorce since it would be impossible for one to marry his stepmother while his father was still married to her.

⁶ tn Heb “uncover his father’s skirt” (so ASV, NASB). This appears to be a circumlocution for describing the dishonor that would come to a father by having his own son share his wife’s sexuality (cf. NAB, NIV “dishonor his father’s bed”).

⁷ tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”

⁸ tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”

⁹ tn Or “look.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “men have come here tonight from the sons of Israel.”

¹¹ tn Heb “daughter of worthlessness.”