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Unlawful Sexual Relations

Leviticus 18:16

In 11 translations

BSB
You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.
KJV
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
WEB
“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.
ASV
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
LSV
You do not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it [is] your brother’s nakedness.
YLT
'The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it [is] thy brother's nakedness.
DBY
The nakedness of thy brother's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy brother's nakedness.
DRC
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: because it is the nakedness of thy brother.
GNV
Thou shalt not discouer the shame of thy brothers wife. for it is thy brothers shame.
JPS
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
LXXE
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
עֶרְוַ֥ת אֵֽשֶׁת־אָחִ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תְגַלֵּ֑ה עֶרְוַ֥ת אָחִ֖יךָ הִֽוא׃
LXX-Br
Ἀσχημοσύνην γυναικὸς ἀδελφοῦ σου οὐκ ἀποκαλύψεις, ἀσχημοσύνη ἀδελφοῦ σου ἐστίν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Leviticus 20:21If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.
  • Deuteronomy 25:5When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
  • Mark 12:19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
  • Matthew 22:24“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
  • Mark 6:17For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.
  • Luke 3:19But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,
  • Matthew 14:3–4Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

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