Leviticus 18:16

New English Translation

You must not have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.

Cross References

Leviticus 20:21

If a man has sexual intercourse with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.

Matthew 22:24

“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

Mark 12:19

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us: ‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

Mark 6:17

For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

Luke 3:19

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

Deuteronomy 25:5

If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.