Leviticus 18:18

New English Translation

You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual intercourse with her.

Cross References

Genesis 29:28

Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

Genesis 30:15

But Leah replied, “Wasn’t it enough that you’ve taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes too?” “All right,” Rachel said, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 4:19

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

Exodus 26:3

Five curtains are to be joined, one to another, and the other five curtains are to be joined, one to another.

Leviticus 18:17

You must not have sexual intercourse with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have intercourse with them. They are closely related to her – it is lewdness.

Leviticus 18:19

“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.

Malachi 2:15

No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.