Leviticus 18:16 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁶ You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; she 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.

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

saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother must 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 and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

Mark 6:17

For Herod had sent and seized John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodi-as, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.

Luke 3:19

But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodi-as, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done,

Deuteronomy 25:5

“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside the family to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.