Leviticus 18:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s family.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ You shall not have intercourse with your brother's wife; she belongs to your brother.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ You will not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; for it is the nakedness of your brother.

Leviticus 18:16 Cross References

Leviticus 20:21

If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is impurity.  He has violated the intimacy that belongs to his brother;  , they will be childless.

Matthew 22:24

‘Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.   ,

Mark 12:19

‘Teacher,  Moses  wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife behind but no child,   that man should take the wife   and raise up offspring for his brother.   ,

Mark 6:17

For  Herod himself had given orders to arrest John and to chain  him in prison on account of Herodias,  his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her.

Luke 3:19

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch  because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the evil things he had done,

Deuteronomy 25:5

‘When brothers live on the same property  and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.