His father’s wife. —Here the penalty is enacted for the sin prohibited in Leviticus 18:8.

Nothing new occurs here, for Moses's objective was, by enacting penalties, to reinforce the instruction recently given. By previously condemning in…

And the man that lies with his father's wife
Whether she be his mother, or another woman, as the Targum of Jonathan;…

These verses repeat what had been said before, but it was necessary that there should be line upon line. What praises we owe to God that He has tau…