Leviticus 18:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 20:12 : 12 And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them.
  • Ezek 22:11 : 11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.
  • Gen 38:26 : 26 Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her.
  • Gen 38:18-19 : 18 And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him. 19 Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:6-14
    9 verses
    90%

    6You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

    7You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her.

    8And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.

    9You may not take your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, wherever her birth took place, among you or in another country.

    10You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself;

    11Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.

    12You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation.

    13You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation.

    14You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family;

  • Lev 18:16-20
    5 verses
    89%

    16You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

    17You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

    18And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

    19And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

    20And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

  • 30A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

  • Lev 20:17-21
    5 verses
    81%

    17And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.

    18And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people.

    19And you may not have sex connection with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for they are his near relations: their sin will be on them.

    20And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children.

    21And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.

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    10In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

    11And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

  • 29Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

  • Lev 20:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

    12And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them.

  • 16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

  • 3Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

  • 16But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.

  • 2You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

  • Gen 38:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.

    16And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price?

  • 30You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • 13By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • 20Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • 20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • 15Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,

  • 18Do not be false to the married relation.

  • 14Do not be false to the married relation.

  • 14And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.

  • 9And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her loose behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire.

  • 5If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

  • 29So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.

  • 25And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.

  • 26And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.

  • 56The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

  • 9And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

  • 45You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

  • 2But only for his near relations, for his mother or his father, his son or his daughter, and his brother;

  • 20If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.