Leviticus 20:10
Good News Translation
If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman shall be put to death.

New Revised Standard Version
If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

Contemporary English Version
If any of you men have sex with another man's wife, both you and the woman will be put to death.

New American Bible
If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

the adulterer

Deuteronomy 22:22-24 If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel. . . .

2 Samuel 12:13 And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.

Ezekiel 23:45-47 They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. . . .

John 8:4,5 And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery. . . .

Context
Punishments for Sexual Immorality
10If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.11If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.…
Cross References
John 8:5
Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou?

Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Leviticus 18:20
Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

Numbers 5:13
Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:

Deuteronomy 5:18
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.

2 Samuel 11:5
And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and told David, and said: I have conceived.

2 Samuel 12:13
And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.

Job 31:11
For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.

Ezekiel 23:47
And let the people stone them with stone, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.

Malachi 2:15
Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.

Leviticus 20:9
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