Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside her, during her life.
New American Standard Bible
You shall not
King James Version
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Holman Bible
You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.
International Standard Version
"You are not to marry a woman and then have sexual relations with her sister as a rival when your wife is still alive.
A Conservative Version
And thou shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival to her , to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.
Amplified
You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.
Bible in Basic English
And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.
Julia Smith Translation
And a wife to her sister thou shalt not take to press to uncover her nakedness with her, in her living.
King James 2000
Neither shall you take as a wife her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you must not take [as wife] a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her {during} her life.
Modern King James verseion
And you shall not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou shalt not take a wife and her sister thereto, to vex her that thou wouldest open her privities as long as she liveth.
NET Bible
You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual intercourse with her.
New Heart English Bible
"'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
The Emphasized Bible
And, a woman unto her sister, shalt thou not take, - to cause rivalry, by uncovering her shame besides her own while she is living.
Webster
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness besides the other in her life-time.
World English Bible
"'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
Youngs Literal Translation
'And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.
Themes
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Lying with a woman in her menses
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Incest
Interlinear
Laqach
Galah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 18:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws Of Sexual Relations
17 The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shalt thou not uncover; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, nor her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are her near relations: it is wickedness. 18 And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside her, during her life. 19 And thou shalt not approach a woman in the separation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness.
Cross References
Genesis 4:19
And Lemech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the second, Zillah.
Genesis 29:28
And Jacob did so, and fulfilled the week with this one, and he gave him Rachel his daughter to be his wife.
Genesis 30:15
And she said to her, Is it too little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.
Exodus 26:3
Five of the curtains shall be coupled one to another, and the other five curtains coupled one to another.
1 Samuel 1:6-8
And her adversary provoked her much also, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.
Malachi 2:15
And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,