Leviticus 18:16

Modern English Version

You shall not have relations with your brother’s wife, for this exposes your brother’s nakedness.

Cross References

Leviticus 20:21

If a man lies with his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.

Matthew 22:24

“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry his wife and raise up children for his brother.’

Mark 12:19

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves his wife behind, but leaves no children, that man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother.

Mark 6:17

Herod had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.

Luke 3:19

But Herod the tetrarch, being rebuked by him because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,

Deuteronomy 25:5

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies without having had a child, the wife of the deceased may not marry outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother must go to her and take her to himself as a wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.