John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 20:12

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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If a man lie with his daughter in law, etc.] His son’s wife, whether in the lifetime of his son, or after his death, or whether she was espoused or married, according to the above tradition f724: both of them shall surely be put to death; it being a breach of the law in (<031815>Leviticus 18:15); and this is the penalty annexed to it, even death: they have wrought confusion: have been guilty of a shocking and shameful mixture, as Jarchi and Ben Gersom, as well as confounded the degrees of relation and affinity: their blood [shall be] upon them; it being a capital crime, their, blood shall be shed for it; they shall be found guilty of death by stoning, as the Targum of Jonathan.

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