Verse Leviticus 20:10. Committeth adultery] To what has been said in Clarke's note on "Exodus 20:14", we may add, that the word adultery comes from the Latin adulterium, which is compounded of ad, to or with, and alter, another, or, according to Minshieu, of ad alterius forum, he that approaches to another man's bed.

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