1. Leviticus 20:14 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does the verb “takes” imply?

Leviticus 20:14 (ESV)

14 If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.

The verb to take, grasp (yiqqǎḥ) suggests that man may have married both the woman as well as her daughter.