Leviticus 20:21

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:16 : 16 Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.
  • 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 20:17-20
    4 verses
    88%

    17If 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.

    18If 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.

    19You 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.

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

  • Lev 18:11-20
    10 verses
    83%

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

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

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

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

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

    16Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

    17Do 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.

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

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

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

  • Lev 20:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

    11If 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.

  • Deut 25:5-7
    3 verses
    77%

    5If 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.

    6The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel.

    7But 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.'

  • Lev 20:14
    77%

    14If 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.

  • Num 5:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12Speak to the Israelites: If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

    13and 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,

  • Luke 20:29-30
    2 verses
    75%

    29Now there were seven brothers. The first married a wife and died childless.

    30Then the second brother married her, but he also died childless.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

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

    11One 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.

  • Num 5:20
    75%

    20But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and defiled yourself, and if a man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you—

  • Lev 21:3
    74%

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

  • Lev 15:16
    74%

    16If a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his entire body with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

  • Lev 18:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

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

    9Do 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.

  • Lev 18:6
    74%

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

  • Mark 12:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20'Now there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no children.'

    21'The second brother married her and also died, leaving no children. The same happened to the third, and likewise to all seven.'

  • Lev 20:22
    74%

    22You shall faithfully keep all my statutes and all my judgments and obey them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

  • Deut 27:20
    74%

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

  • Matt 22:25
    73%

    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.

  • Lev 21:7
    73%

    7They must not marry a woman who is a prostitute or has been profaned, nor may they marry a divorced woman, because priests are holy to their God.

  • Ezek 18:11
    73%

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

  • Prov 6:29
    73%

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

  • Deut 28:30
    73%

    30You 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.

  • Lev 15:18
    73%

    18If 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.

  • Gen 38:9
    73%

    9However, 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.

  • Lev 19:20
    73%

    20If a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave designated for another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be an inquiry, but they are not to be put to death because she had not been freed.

  • Num 5:28
    72%

    28But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to conceive children.

  • Deut 22:22
    72%

    22If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman who were together must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

  • Lev 21:13
    72%

    13He must marry a woman who is a virgin.

  • Deut 24:4
    72%

    4then her first husband, who sent her away, is not allowed to take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled. That would be detestable to the LORD. You must not bring guilt upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

  • Deut 21:15
    72%

    15If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife,