Leviticus 18:16

Tree of Life Version

You are not to uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife, because that is your brother’s nakedness.

Cross References

Leviticus 20:21

If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness, and they will be childless.

Matthew 22:24

“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If someone dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his widow and father children for his brother.’

Mark 12:19

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ‘if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, then his brother should take the widow and father children for his brother.’

Mark 6:17

For Herod himself sent and arrested John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because Herod had married her.

Luke 3:19

But Herod the tetrarch—after being rebuked by John because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil things Herod had done—

Deuteronomy 25:5

“If brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the dead man’s wife is not to be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother is to go to her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.