Leviticus 20:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless [not literally, but in a legal sense].

American Standard Version (1901)

And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

Common English Bible

If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is indecent. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; the man and the woman will be childless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Whoever will have married his brother's wife has done an unlawful thing; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness. They shall be without children.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He that marrieth his brother's wife doth an unlawful thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness. They shall be without children.

Leviticus 20:21 Références croisées

Leviticus 18:16

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.