Leviticus 18:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Leviticus 18:16 Cross References

Leviticus 20:21

If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

Matthew 22:24

“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies childless, his brother shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.’

Mark 12:19

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.

Mark 6:17

For Herod himself had sent men who arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

Luke 3:19

But Herod the ruler, who had been rebuked by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil things that Herod had done,

Deuteronomy 25:5

“When brothers reside together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, taking her in marriage and performing the duty of a husband’s brother to her,