Parallel Verses
NET Bible
You must not have sexual intercourse with your brother's wife; she is your 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.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou shalt not unhele the privity of thy brother's wife, for that is thy brother's privity.
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 You must not have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife. You must not have intercourse with her. 16 You must not have sexual intercourse with your brother's wife; she is your brother's nakedness. 17 You must not have sexual intercourse with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to have intercourse with them. They are closely related to her -- it is lewdness.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 20:21
If a man has sexual intercourse with his brother's wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother's nakedness; they will be childless.
Deuteronomy 25:5
If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man's wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband's brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.
Matthew 22:24
"Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.'
Mark 12:19
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us: 'If a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.'
Matthew 14:3-4
For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,
Mark 6:17
For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.
Luke 3:19
But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done,