– Included in the Decalogue, it is also addressed in other OT books and condemned in the NT:
Ex 20,14 : You shall not commit adultery.
Leviticus 18:20 : Thou shalt not sleep with thy neighbor’s wife, defiling thyself with her.
Leviticus 20:10 : If a man commits adultery with a married woman.
Num 5,12-30 : If a woman turns away from her husband and is unfaithful to him.
Deut 22:22 : If a man is found sleeping with a married woman, both must die.
Mt 14:4 : John had said to him: “It is not lawful for you to take her as a wife!”.
Jn 8,3-11 : The scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman who had been caught in adultery.
1Cor 6,9 : Do you not know that the unrighteous will not possess the kingdom of God? […] nor adulterers.
Heb 13:4 : God will judge the impure and adulterers.
– It is often used as a figure of Israel’s infidelity towards God, when it allowed itself to be seduced by the worship of idols:
Is 57,1-12 : And you, draw near, you sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterous and whoring woman!
Jr 3,1-5 : And you, after having sinned with countless lovers, will you return to me?
Jer 13,21-27 : Your adulteries […] and your infamous lust on the hills and in the fields, all these abominations, I have seen them.
Hos 1,2–3,5 : He loves again a woman who was loved by his friend, and who was an adulteress.
