Genesis 20:3 / Leviticus 5:17 - Another man's wife
Channel: Mark 4:11 / John 3:27 - Unto you it is given
Date: 2023-04-17

We examine the case of taking another man's wife.  We further discuss the spiritual consequences that pertain to such an offense; as well we consider the suggested remedies brought forth by the Lord Himself.

May you be blessed in the Name of YEHOSHUA HA'MASHIACH (Jesus Christ), the Almighty.
Allelu-YAH.  Amen.

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GENESIS 20:7 KJV
Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

NOTE at 10:13: I am specifically talking about widows living in pleasure; different from a widow who chooses to lawfully get remarried, in the Lord.  And so a widow who does not abide by herself is not in sin if she gets remarried in the Lord, in which case she is not dead while living.  The widow who is dead while livig is the one who lives in pleasure, having unlawful relations outside of a lawful remarriage.

1 CORINTHIANS 7:8,27,39 KJV:
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.
27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Also consider the case of Pharaoh:

GENESIS 12:14-20 KJV
14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.