Leviticus 18:18

New American Bible - revised edition

While your wife is still living you shall not marry her sister as her rival and have intercourse with her.

Cross References

Genesis 29:28

Jacob did so. He finished the bridal week for the one, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as a wife.

Genesis 30:15

Leah replied, “Was it not enough for you to take away my husband, that you must now take my son’s mandrakes too?” Rachel answered, “In that case Jacob may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 4:19

Lamech took two wives; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second Zillah.

Exodus 26:3

Five of the sheets are to be joined one to another; and the same for the other five.

Leviticus 18:17

You shall not have intercourse with a woman and also with her daughter, nor shall you marry and have intercourse with her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter; they are related to her. This would be shameful.

Leviticus 18:19

You shall not approach a woman to have intercourse with her while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

Malachi 2:15

Did he not make them one, with flesh and spirit? And what does the One require? Godly offspring! You should be on guard, then, for your life, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.