Back to THE TORAH CONNECTION Table of Contents<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nExodus 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nExo 22:16, 17 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 18:20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor’s wife, to defile thyself with her. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 19:20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged (they–lit. “there shall be scourging”); they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 20:10-12 And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 20:20, 21 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. And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNum 5:11-31 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be<\/i> no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;<\/i> And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part<\/i> of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is<\/i> an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it<\/i> into the water: And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is<\/i> the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another<\/i> instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: But if thou hast gone aside to another<\/i> instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy<\/i> belly to swell, and thy<\/i> thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them<\/i> out with the bitter water: And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become<\/i> bitter. Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar: And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even<\/i> the memorial thereof, and burn it<\/i> upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that,<\/i> if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become<\/i> bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. This is<\/i> the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another<\/i> instead of her husband, and is defiled; Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 5:18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 21:10-14 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 22:13-21 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; And they shall amerce him in a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 22:23, 24 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 22:25-27 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die: But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter: For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 22:28, 29 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 27:20, 22, 23 Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen. . . . Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nSexual purity \/ impurity in Bible history–<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nGen 2:21-24 God instituted marriage at creation with Adam and Eve<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nGen 12:10-20 Abram claimed Sarai is his sister to the Egyptians<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nGen 20:1-9 Abraham claimed Sarah is his sister to Abimelech<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nGen 26:6-11 Isaac claimed Rebekah is his sister to Abimelech<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nGen 34:1, 2 Shechem raped Dinah<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nGen 35:22 Reuben defiled Bilhah, Jacob’s concubine<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nGen 39:7-12 Potiphar’s wife tempted Joseph<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNum 25 Moabite women seduced Israelite men through the advice of Balaam (Num 31:16)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2Sa 11:1-4 David and Bathsheba<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2Sa 13:1-14 Amnon raped Tamar<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2Sa 16:21, 22 Absalom went in to David’s concubines<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nPro 6:29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nEze 22:10, 11 In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. <\/span><\/span><\/span>And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAmo 2:7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the <\/span><\/span><\/span>same<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> maid, to profane my holy name:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMat 1:18, 19 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. <\/span>Then Joseph her husband, being a just <\/span>man, <\/i><\/span>and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMat 5:27, 28 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMar 10:11, 12 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJoh 8:3-11 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his<\/i> finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.<\/i> So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it,<\/i> being convicted by their own<\/i> conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even<\/i> unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAct 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from<\/i> fornication, and from<\/i> things strangled, and from<\/i> blood. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nRom 7:2, 3 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her<\/i> husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her<\/i> husband. So then if, while her<\/i> husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n1Co 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is<\/i> fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n1Co 6:13, 15, 16 . . . Now the body is<\/i> not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. . . . Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them<\/i> the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n1Co 7:3-16 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be<\/i> with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. But I speak this by permission, and<\/i> not of commandment. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. And unto the married I command, yet<\/i> not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her<\/i> husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her<\/i> husband: and let not the husband put away his<\/i> wife. But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases:<\/i> but God hath called us to peace. For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy<\/i> husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy<\/i> wife? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nHeb 13:4 Marriage is<\/i> honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nRev 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nRev 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This commandment forbids not only acts of impurity, but sensual thoughts and desires, or any practice that tends to excite them. Purity is demanded not only in the outward life but in the secret intents and emotions of the heart. Christ, who taught the far-reaching obligation of the law of God, declared the evil thought or look to be as truly sin as is the unlawful deed.<\/i> PP 308<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Never was this sin regarded by God as being so exceedingly sinful as at the present time. Why? Because God is purifying unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. It is at the very time when God is purifying this peculiar people unto Himself that [unsanctified] individuals step in among us. Notwithstanding the straight truths they have heard–the terrors of the Word of God set before them, and all the blazing truth for these last days calculated to arouse Israel–they sin with a high hand, give way to all the loose passions of the carnal heart, gratify their animal propensities, disgrace the cause of God, and then confess they have sinned and are sorry! <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And the church receives them and says “Amen” to their prayers and exhortations, which are a stink in the nostrils of God, and cause His wrath to come upon the camp. He will not dwell in their assemblies. Those who move on thus heedlessly, plastering over these sins, will be left to their own ways, to be filled with their own doings. <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Those who anciently committed these sins were taken without the camp and stoned to death. Temporal and eternal death was their doom; and because the penalty of stoning to death is abolished, this sin is indulged in beyond measure and is thought to be a small offense.<\/i> TSB 249<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It is not in harmony with the instruction given at Sinai that gentlemen physicians should do the work of midwives. The Bible speaks of women at childbirth being attended by women, and thus it ought always to be. Women should be educated and trained to act skillfully as midwives and physicians to their sex. This is the Lord’s plan. Let us educate ladies to become intelligent in the work of treating the diseases of their sex. We ought to have a school where women can be educated by women physicians to do the best possible work in treating the diseases of women. Among us as a people the medical work should stand at its highest. <\/i> 9T 176<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nBestiality<\/b>—<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nExo 22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev. 18:23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 20:15, 16 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 27:21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIndecent exposure \/ Incest<\/b>—<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 18:6-18 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD. The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness. The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness. The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness. Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLev 20:19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDeu 22:30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIndecent exposure \/ incest in Bible history–<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n