Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou shalt not unhele the privity of thy brother's wife, for that is thy brother's privity.
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.
A Conservative Version
Thou shall not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife. It is thy brother's nakedness.
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.
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
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Galah
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 18:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws Of Sexual Relations
15 Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy daughter-in-law, she is thy son's wife; therefore uncover not her privities. 16 Thou shalt not unhele the privity of thy brother's wife, for that is thy brother's privity. 17 Thou shalt not uncover the privities of the wife and her daughter also; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover their privities: they are her next kin, it were therefore wickedness.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 20:21
If a man take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing; he hath uncovered his brother's privities, they shall be childless therefore.
Deuteronomy 25:5
When brethren dwell together and one of them die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not be given out unto a stranger: but her brother-in-law shall go in unto her and take her to wife and marry her.
Matthew 22:24
saying, "Master, Moses bade, if a man die having no children, that the brother marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Mark 12:19
"Master, Moses wrote unto us, if any man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children: that then his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Matthew 14:3-4
For Herod had taken John and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
Mark 6:17
For Herod himself had sent forth, and had taken John, and bound him and cast him into prison for Herodias' sake, which was his brother Philip's wife. For he had married her.
Luke 3:19
Then Herod the Tetrarch; when he was rebuked of him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done;