EXOD448 The exact opposite of loving, marital companionship is adultery. Adultery is prohibited by the seventh of the Ten Commandments, and adultery and incest are together treated as one of the three prohibitions that, according to the Torah, a person is not to violate even on pain of losing one's life [Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17; B. Sanhedrin 74a] Indeed, the Torah prescribes the death penalty for both men and women involved in adultery [Leviticus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 22:22]; And if for some reason that punishment is not carried out, the Talmud maintains that a woman who committed adultery is forbidden to both her husband and her paramour; that is, she may not continue in her marriage and she may not marry her lover [S.A. Even Ha'ezer 11:1].Thus the Jewish tradition clearly forbade adultery in the strictest of terms.