Pro 6:29 | NET2full | STEP | So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife ; no one who touches her will escape punishment .

Proverbs 6:29

29 So it is with ^{▼▼tn Heb “thus is the one.”} the one who sleeps with ^{▼▼tn Heb “approaches.” The verb בּוֹא (boʾ) with the preposition אֶל (ʾel) means “come to” or “approach,” but is also used as a euphemism for sexual relations.} his neighbor’s wife;
no one ^{▼▼tn Heb “anyone who touches her will not.”} who touches ^{▼▼sn The verb “touches” is intended here to be a euphemism for illegal sexual contact (e.g., Gen 20:6).} her will escape punishment. ^{▼▼tn Heb “will be exempt from”; NASB, NLT “will not go unpunished.”} ^{▼▼tn The verb is יִנָּקֶה (yinnaqeh), the Niphal imperfect from נָקָה (naqah, “to be empty; to be clean”). From it we get the adjectives “clean,” “free from guilt,” “innocent.” The Niphal has the meanings (1) “to be cleaned out” (of a plundered city; e.g., Isa 3:26), (2) “to be clean; to be free from guilt; to be innocent” (Ps 19:14), (3) “to be free; to be exempt from punishment” [here], and (4) “to be free; to be exempt from obligation” (Gen 24:8).}