Leviticus 18:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁸ You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ You must not marry a woman in addition to her sister, to be a rival to her, having sexual relations with the second sister when the first one is alive.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ You must not marry your wife’s sister as a rival and have sexual contact with her while her sister is alive.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ You shall not take your wife's sister as a rival mistress; nor shall you uncover her nakedness, while your wife is still living.

Leviticus 18:18 Cross References

Genesis 29:28

And Jacob did just that. He finished the week of celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

Genesis 30:15

But Leah replied to her, ‘Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes? ’ ‘Well then,’ Rachel said, ‘he can sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.’

Genesis 4:19

Lamech took two wives for himself, one named Adah and the other named Zillah.

Exodus 26:3

Five of the curtains should be joined together, and the other five curtains joined together.

Leviticus 18:17

You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter.  You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

Leviticus 18:19

‘You are not to approach  a woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.

Malachi 2:15

Didn’t God make them one and give them a portion of spirit? What is the one seeking?  Godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully,  , so that no one acts treacherously against the wife of his  youth.