Mother-in-law

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningMatthew 10:35
• Not to be defiledLeviticus 18:17Leviticus 20:14Deuteronomy 27:23
• Beloved by RuthRuth 1:14–17
• Peter's, healed by JesusMark 1:30Mark 1:31

The passages, in Bible order (7)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 7 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Leviticus 18:17

   You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

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   “Thou shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter,....

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2. Leviticus 20:14

   If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 20:142 voices

   “And if a man take a wife, and her mother,....

   “They shall be burnt with fire - As there are worse crimes mentioned here, (see Lev 20:11 and Lev 20:17), where the delinquent is ordered simply to be put to death, or to be cut off, it is very likely that the crime mentioned in this verse was not punished by burning alive, but by some kind of branding, by which they were ever after rendered infamous.

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3. Deuteronomy 27:23

   ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:231 voice

   “Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law,.... See Lev 18:7. All these incestuous or brutal copulations may well be supposed to be done in secret: and all the people shall say Amen; as abhorring such incest.

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4. Ruth 1:14–17

   Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

   ›Commentary on Ruth 1:14–172 voices

   “And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law - The Septuagint add, Και επεστρεψεν εις τον λαον αυτης, And returned to her own people. The Vulgate, Syrian, and Arabic, are to the same purpose.

   “Next pass with eager eyes to Ruth, who with one short book separates eras—the end of the period of the judges and the beginning of Samuel. It seems a short account, but it depicts the symbolism of the great conflict when the two sisters separate …

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5. Matthew 10:35

   For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

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   “(Verse 35) For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's enemies will be those of his own household. This passage is written in almost the same words in the prophet Micah (Micah 7). And it should be noted whenever a testimony from the Old Testament is presented, whether the meaning alone or also the wording agrees.

   “For I am come to set a man at variance against,.... Or "to divide a man from his father".

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6. Mark 1:30

   Simon’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a fever, and they promptly told Jesus about her.

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   “But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever,....

   “Can you imagine Jesus standing before your bed and you continue sleeping? It is absurd that you would remain in bed in his presence. Where is Jesus? He is already here offering himself to us. "In the middle," he says, "among you he stands, whom you do not recognize." "The kingdom of God is in your midst." Faith beholds Jesus among us. If we are unable to seize his hand, let us prostrate ourselves at his feet. If we are unable to reach his head, let us wash his feet with our tears.

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7. Mark 1:31

   So He went to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began to serve them.

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   “(in Marc. i. 6, 8) But in that He gives most profusely His gifts of healing and doctrine on the sabbath day, He teaches, that He is not under the Law, but above the Law, and does not choose the Jewish sabbath, but the true sabbath, and our rest is pleasing to the Lord, if, in order to attend to the health of our souls, we abstain from slavish work, that is, from all unlawful things. It goes on, and immediately the fever left her, &c.

   “And he came and took her by the hand,....

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