Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Thou shall not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife. It is thy brother's nakedness.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Holman Bible
You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; it will shame your brother.
International Standard Version
"You are not to have sexual relations with your brother's wife. She's the nakedness of your brother.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Amplified
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.
Bible in Basic English
You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.
Darby Translation
The nakedness of thy brother's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Julia Smith Translation
The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou shalt not uncover: it is thy brother's nakedness.
King James 2000
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You must not expose the nakedness of your brother's wife; she [is] your brother's nakedness.
Modern King James verseion
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife. It is your brother's nakedness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou shalt not unhele the privity of thy brother's wife, for that is thy brother's privity.
NET Bible
You must not have sexual intercourse with your brother's wife; she is your brother's nakedness.
New Heart English Bible
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
The Emphasized Bible
The shame of thy brother's wife, shalt thou not uncover, - the shame of thy brother, it is.
Webster
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
World English Bible
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
Youngs Literal Translation
The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it is thy brother's nakedness.
Themes
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Incest
Copulation » Forbidden between persons near of kin
Topics
Interlinear
Galah
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 18:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws Of Sexual Relations
15 Thou shall not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law. She is thy son's wife. Thou shall not uncover her nakedness. 16 Thou shall not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife. It is thy brother's nakedness. 17 Thou shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. Thou shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is iniquity.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 20:21
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
Deuteronomy 25:5
If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a
Matthew 22:24
Teacher, Moses said, If some man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.
Mark 12:19
Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If a man's brother dies, and leaves behind a wife, and leaves no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.
Matthew 14:3-4
For Herod having arrested John, bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
Mark 6:17
For Herod himself having sent forth, he arrested John, and bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because he married her.
Luke 3:19
But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him about Herodias his brother's wife, and about all of which evil things Herod had done,