Leviticus 18:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.”
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“You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it <FI>is<Fi> thy brother's nakedness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 18:16 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Matthew 14:3Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,
- 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.
- 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.
- Luke 3:19But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,
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