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Bible Verses About Adultery

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  1. but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter;

  2. for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

  3. If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

  4. then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

  5. There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

  6. Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife, because he hath uncovered his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  7. Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  8. Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  9. And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.

  10. And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there the space of four months.

  11. And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly unto her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

  12. And his father-in-law, the damsel’s father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.

  13. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

  14. Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house; and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

  15. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

  16. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

  17. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.

  18. In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

  19. For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  20. Swiftly theypass awayupon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

  21. I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

  22. If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;

  23. Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

  24. For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

  25. For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.