Leviticus 18:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

Cross References

Leviticus 20:21

And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.

Matthew 22:24

Master, Moses said, If a man, at the time of his death, has no children, let his brother take his wife, and get a family for his brother;

Mark 12:19

Master, in the law Moses says, If a man's brother comes to his end, and has a wife still living and no child, it is right for his brother to take his wife, and get a family for his brother.

Mark 6:17

For Herod himself had sent men out to take John and put him in prison, because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had taken for himself.

Luke 3:19

But Herod the king, because John had made a protest on account of Herodias, his brother's wife, and other evil things which Herod had done,

Deuteronomy 25:5

If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.