Leviticus 20:10
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If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

the adulterer

Deuteronomy 22:22-24 If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel. . . .

2 Samuel 12:13 And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.

Ezekiel 23:45-47 They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. . . .

John 8:4,5 And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery. . . .

Context
Punishments for Sexual Immorality
10If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.11If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.…
Cross References
John 8:5
Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou?

Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Leviticus 18:20
Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

Numbers 5:13
Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:

Deuteronomy 5:18
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.

2 Samuel 11:5
And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and told David, and said: I have conceived.

2 Samuel 12:13
And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.

Job 31:11
For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.

Ezekiel 23:47
And let the people stone them with stone, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.

Malachi 2:15
Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.

Lexicon
If a man
וְאִ֗ישׁ (wə·’îš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

commits adultery
יִנְאַף֙ (yin·’ap̄)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5003: To commit adultery, to apostatize

with
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

[another] man’s
אִ֔ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

wife—
אֵ֣שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

with
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

the wife
אֵ֣שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

of his neighbor—
רֵעֵ֑הוּ (rê·‘ê·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7453: Friend, companion, fellow

both the adulterer
הַנֹּאֵ֖ף (han·nō·’êp̄)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5003: To commit adultery, to apostatize

and the adulteress
וְהַנֹּאָֽפֶת׃ (wə·han·nō·’ā·p̄eṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5003: To commit adultery, to apostatize

must surely
מֽוֹת־ (mō·wṯ-)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 4191: To die, to kill

be put to death.
יוּמַ֥ת (yū·maṯ)
Verb - Hofal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4191: To die, to kill


Additional Translations
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbour, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.

And a man that committeth adultery with a man's wife, who committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, -- the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death.

And 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.

And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

"'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

'And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife -- who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour -- the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.
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