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Deu 22:30 — A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

A man shall	This is to be understood as referring to the case of a stepmother. A man in his old age may have married a young woman, and on his dying, his son by another, or a former wife, may desire to espouse her; which is here forbidden. Deu 27:20; Lev 18:8; Lev 20:11; 1Cr 5:1,13
discover	Rth 3:9; Eze 16:8