Deutéronome 22:30

Darby's French Translation

Un homme ne prendra pas la femme de son père, et ne relèvera pas le pan du vêtement de son père.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Nul ne prendra la femme de son père, ni ne lèvera le bord de la couverture de son père.

Louis Segond (1910)
Nul ne prendra la femme de son père, et ne soulèvera la couverture de son père.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Nul ne prendra la femme de son père, ni ne découvrira le pan de la robe de son père.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a man shall: This is to be understood as referring to the case of a stepmother. A man in his old age may have married a young woman, and on his dying, his son by another, or a former wife, may desire to espouse her; which is here forbidden. Deuteronomy 27:20, Leviticus 18:8, Leviticus 20:11, 1 Corinthians 5:1, 1 Corinthians 5:13

discover: Ruth 3:9, Ezekiel 16:8

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A man shall not take his father's wife,.... Not marry her, whether his own mother, or a stepmother; or even, as Aben Ezra thinks, anyone that was deflowered by his father. Jarchi interprets it of his father's brother's wife, which he was obliged to marry by virtue of the law in Deuteronomy 25:5

nor discover his father's skirt; or lie with her his father had thrown his skirt over, or married; and which being the first, is mentioned here as a sample to all the rest forbidden Leviticus 18:7 or, as Bishop Patrick expresses it, is a "short memorandum", to make them careful to observe all the other laws respecting incestuous marriages and copulations there delivered.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 22:30. A man shall not take his father's wife — This is to be understood as referring to the case of a stepmother. A man in his old age may have married a young wife, and on his dying, his son by a former wife may desire to espouse her: this the law prohibits. It was probably on pretence of having broken this law, that Solomon put his brother Adonijah to death, because he had desired to have his father's concubine to wife, 1 Kings 2:13-25.