Leviticus 20:20

WEB

If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

KJV

And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

Commentary

And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife,.... His uncle being dead, and he marry her, which is forbidden, Lev 18:14 , he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: his wife's, which was his, and therefore the kindred too near for a man to marry in, and such a copulation must be incestuous: they shall bear their sin; "both" of them, as the Vulgate Latin, as before, Lev 20:19 ; the punishment of it, as follows: they shall be childless; which Jarchi and other Jewish writers interpret, if they had any children at this time, that is, by a former marriage, they should die and be buried before them, which was reckoned a great punishment, see Jer 22:30 .