If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother. You shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’
“Thus the Lord has dealt with me, in the days when He looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years.
Thus says the Lord: ‘Write this man down as childless, A man who shall not prosper in his days; For none of his descendants shall prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”
Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings.
If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.