Leviticus 18:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s family.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:5

‘When brothers live on the same property  and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

Leviticus 20:21

If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is impurity.  He has violated the intimacy that belongs to his brother;  , they will be childless.

Mark 12:19

‘Teacher,  Moses  wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife behind but no child,   that man should take the wife   and raise up offspring for his brother.   ,

Matthew 22:24

‘Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.   ,

Luke 3:19

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch  because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the evil things he had done,

Mark 6:17

For  Herod himself had given orders to arrest John and to chain  him in prison on account of Herodias,  his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her.