22:30 A man shall not {l} take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
(l) He shall not lie with his stepmother, meaning by this all other variations forbidden in Le 18:1-30.
22:30 Take - To wife. So this respects the state, and the next branch speaks of the act only.
22:13-30 These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
