`And a man who lieth with his aunt, the nakedness of his uncle he hath uncovered; their sin they bear; childless they die.
He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.
Thus said Jehovah: Write ye this man childless, A man -- he doth not prosper in his days, For none of his seed doth prosper, Sitting on the throne of David, And ruling again in Judah!
`The nakedness of thy father's brother thou dost not uncover; unto his wife thou dost not draw near; she `is' thine aunt.
`And a man who taketh his brother's wife -- it `is' impurity; the nakedness of his brother he hath uncovered; childless they are.
`Thus hath the Lord done to me, in days in which He looked upon `me', to take away my reproach among men.'
and they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.
for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;