John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 22:30

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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A man shall not take his father’s wife, etc.] Not marry her, whether his own mother, or a stepmother; or even, as Aben Ezra thinks, anyone that was deflowered by his father. Jarchi interprets it of his father’s brother’s wife, which he was obliged to marry by virtue of the law in (<052505>Deuteronomy 25:5) nor discover his father’s skirt; or lie with her his father had thrown his skirt over, or married; and which being the first, is mentioned here as a sample to all the rest forbidden (<031807>Leviticus 18:7) or, as Bishop Patrick expresses it, is a “short memorandum”, to make them careful to observe all the other laws respecting incestuous marriages and copulations there delivered.

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