12" 'If a man sleeps with his daughter-in- law, both of them must be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.


In Context

9 " 'If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood will be on his own head.

10 " 'If a man commits adultery with another man's wife-with the wife of his neighbor-both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

11 " 'If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

12 " 'If a man sleeps with his daughter-in- law, both of them must be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.

13 " 'If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

14 " 'If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.

Leviticus 20:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood [shall be] upon them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:12If any man lie with his daughter in law, let both die, because they have done a heinous crime: their blood be upon them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall certainly be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood is upon them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12And if a man shall lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12|'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12And a man who lieth with his daughter-in-law — both of them are certainly put to death; confusion they have made; their blood is on them.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have worked confusion; their blood shall be on them.