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

¹⁸ And you shall not take a woman as a rival to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.

Leviticus 18:18 Cross References

Genesis 29:28

Jacob did so and completed her week; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as a wife.

Genesis 30:15

But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?” Rachel said, “Then he may lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 4:19

Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Exodus 26:3

Five curtains shall be joined to one another, and the other five curtains shall be joined to one another.

Leviticus 18:17

You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are your flesh; it is depravity.

Leviticus 18:19

“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

Malachi 2:15

Did God not make them one, flesh with spirit in it? And what does the one desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth.