“Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.”
Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her. The prohibition on adultery — sexual relations with a neighbor's wife — is the covenant's sexual ethic applied to the community's relational structure. The defile yourself framing communicates that the adultery is not only a violation of the neighbor's marital rights but a self-contaminating act. The Seventh Commandment (Exodus 20:14) prohibits adultery as a brief statement; Leviticus 18:20 connects the prohibition to the self-defilement that adultery produces.
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