Other translations
American Standard Version
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
Darby Bible Translation
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
“A man shall not take his father’s wife, so that he does not uncover his father’s nakedness.
God's Word
A man must never marry his father's wife because this would disgrace his father.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
A man is not to marry his father's wife; he must not violate his father's marriage bed."
International Standard Version
"A man must not marry his father's wife, so that he will not dishonor his father's memory."
NET Bible
A man may not marry his father's former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
New American Standard Bible
"A man shall not take his father's wife so that he will not uncover his father's skirt.
New International Version
A man is not to marry his father's wife; he must not dishonor his father's bed.
New Living Translation
"A man must not marry his father's former wife, for this would violate his father.
Webster's Bible Translation
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
The World English Bible
A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
EasyEnglish Bible
A man must not marry a woman who was his father's wife. That would bring shame on his father.
Young‘s Literal Translation
`A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
New Life Version
“A man must not take his father’s wife. He must not take the clothes off the woman who belongs to his father.
The Voice Bible
A man is not allowed to marry a woman who was once married to his father. He must respect the privacy and dignity of his father’s intimate relations with his wife.
Living Bible
A man shall not sleep with his father’s widow since she belonged to his father.
Legacy Standard Bible
“A man shall not take his father’s wife so that he will not uncover his father’s skirt.
Jubilee Bible 2000
A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor uncover his father’s skirt.
Christian Standard Bible
“A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.
Amplified Bible © 1954
A man shall not take his father’s former wife, nor shall he uncover her who belongs to his father.
New Century Version
A man must not marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father in this way.
The Message
A man may not marry his father’s ex-wife—that would violate his father’s rights. * * *
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
A man must not marry the wife of his father; that is, he is not to remove the skirt that is reserved for his father.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
A man shall not marry his father’s wife, thereby violating his father’s rights.
Good News Translation®
“No man is to disgrace his father by having intercourse with any of his father's wives.
Wycliffe Bible
A man shall not take his father’s wife, neither he shall show her private(s).
Contemporary English Version
A man must not marry a woman who was married to his father. This would be a disgrace to his father.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
“A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor shall he uncover her who is his father’s.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
“A man shall not marry his father’s wife, thereby violating his father’s rights.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
A man shall not marry his father’s wife, thereby violating his father’s rights.
Common English Bible © 2011
A man cannot marry his father’s former wife so that his father’s private matters are not exposed.
Amplified Bible © 2015
“A man shall not take his father’s [former] wife, so that he will not expose his father’s wife.
English Standard Version Anglicised
“A man shall not take his father's wife, so that he does not uncover his father's nakedness.
New American Standard Bible
“A man shall not take his father’s wife in marriage, so that he does not uncover his father’s garment.
The Expanded Bible
A man must not marry his father’s wife; he must not ·dishonor his father in this way [L uncover his father’s skirt; Lev. 18:7–8; 20:11].
Revised Standard Version
“A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor shall he uncover her who is his father’s.
New International Reader's Version
A man must not marry his stepmother. He must not bring shame on his father by sleeping with her.
BRG Bible
A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
A man shall not marry his father’s wife, thereby violating his father’s rights.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
An ish shall not take eshet aviv (his father’s wife), nor uncover his father’s robe.
Names of God Bible
A man must never marry his father’s wife because this would disgrace his father.
Modern English Version
A man must not marry his father’s wife and in this way dishonor his father.
Easy-to-Read Version
“A man must not bring shame to his father by marrying his father’s wife.
International Children’s Bible
A man must not marry his father’s wife. He must not dishonor his father in this way.
Lexham English Bible
A man may not take the wife of his father, and so he may not dishonor his father.
New International Version - UK
A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonour his father’s bed.