Leviticus 18:16

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Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 20:21 : 21 If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
  • Deut 25:5 : 5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the dead man's wife must not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
  • Matt 22:24 : 24 saying, 'Teacher, Moses said: If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.'
  • Mark 12:19 : 19 'Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves behind a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.'
  • Luke 3:19 : 19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by John about Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, and for all the evil things he had done,
  • Mark 6:17 : 17 For Herod himself had sent men to arrest John, and he had him bound and put in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married.
  • Matt 14:3-4 : 3 For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. 4 For John had been telling him, 'It is not lawful for you to have her.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:6-15
    10 verses
    89%

    6 No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

    7 Do not dishonor your father by uncovering your mother’s nakedness. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

    8 Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.

    9 Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born in the same household or elsewhere.

    10 Do not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would dishonor yourself.

    11 Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

    12 Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

    13 Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative.

    14 Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.

    15 Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you must not uncover her nakedness.

  • Lev 18:17-20
    4 verses
    88%

    17 Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

    18 Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

    19 Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

    20 Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

  • Lev 20:17-21
    5 verses
    84%

    17 If a man marries his sister, whether she is the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother, and they see each other's nakedness, it is a disgrace. They shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness and shall bear his iniquity.

    18 If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual impurity and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her source of blood, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

    19 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or your father's sister, for this would dishonor a close relative. They shall bear their iniquity.

    20 If a man lies with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

    21 If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.

    11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • Deut 25:5
    74%

    5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the dead man's wife must not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

  • Lev 20:11
    74%

    11 If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

  • Num 5:13
    74%

    13 and another man has sexual relations with her secretly, and it is hidden from her husband, and she is not caught but has become defiled, even though there is no witness against her,

  • Prov 6:29
    74%

    29 So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

  • Ezek 18:15
    73%

    15 He does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift his eyes to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

  • Deut 22:1
    73%

    1 If you see your brother's ox or sheep wandering off, do not ignore it. Be sure to return it to your brother.

  • Lev 18:22
    72%

    22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

  • Deut 5:18
    72%

    18 You shall not commit adultery.

  • Gen 2:25
    72%

    25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

  • Job 22:6
    72%

    6 For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Lev 21:3
    71%

    3 And also for his virgin sister, who is near to him and has not been married, he may defile himself for her.

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit.

  • Mark 6:18
    71%

    18 John had been telling Herod, 'It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.'

  • Ezek 18:11
    71%

    11 even though the father did none of them: He eats at the mountain shrines, defiles his neighbor’s wife,

  • Exod 20:26
    71%

    26 And do not go up to My altar by steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed on it.

  • Deut 27:22
    71%

    22 Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Deut 27:20
    71%

    20 Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father's wife, for he has dishonored his father's bed. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Gen 38:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 Then Judah said to Onan, 'Lie with your brother's widow, perform your duty as her brother-in-law, and produce offspring for your brother.'

    9 However, Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he went in to his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to avoid producing offspring for his brother.

  • Exod 20:14
    71%

    14 You shall not commit adultery.

  • Deut 22:5
    70%

    5 A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, nor shall a man put on women’s clothing, for anyone who does such things is detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 15:18
    70%

    18 If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

  • Lev 20:14
    70%

    14 If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is depravity. He and they must be burned with fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

  • Ezek 23:18
    70%

    18 When she openly displayed her prostitution and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

  • Lev 19:29
    70%

    29 Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will become filled with wickedness.

  • Exod 34:16
    70%

    16 And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

  • Deut 25:7
    70%

    7 But if the man does not wish to marry his brother's widow, she shall go to the elders at the city gate and say, 'My brother-in-law is refusing to perform his duty to preserve his brother's name in Israel. He is unwilling to marry me.'

  • Jer 16:2
    70%

    2 You are not to marry or have sons or daughters in this place.