If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless.
He has neither descendant nor posterity among his people, nor anyone remaining in his dwellings.
Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let his name be blotted out.
Thus says the Lord: Write down this man childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David and ruling any more in Judah.
You shall not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife for relations; she is your aunt.
If a man lies with his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.
“Thus the Lord has dealt with me in the days when He looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.”
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were now well advanced in years.
For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, who never bore and never nursed!’