Leviticus 18:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

Deuteronomy 25:5

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

Leviticus 20:21

And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

Mark 12:19

Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave a wife behind him, and leave no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Matthew 22:24

saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Luke 3:19

but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

Mark 6:17

For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.