John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 20:11

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the man that lieth with his father’s wife, etc.] Whether she be his mother, or another woman, as the Targum of Jonathan; that is, whether she is his own mother, or a stepmother, or whether he did this in the lifetime of his father, or after his death, or whether she was betrothed or married, it mattered not; according to the Jewish tradition f722, this is a breach of the law, (<031808>Leviticus 18:8); and a man guilty of this hath uncovered his father’s nakedness; and which is a foul and shameful piece of wickedness; the penalty follows: both of them shall be put to death; by casting stones on them, as the Targum of Jonathan adds; for, as before observed, wherever the following phrase, their blood [shall be] upon them, is used, stoning is meant; and so, according to the Misnah f723, all those were to be stoned, after mentioned, of whom this phrase is used.

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