Verse 18
You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.
Referenced Verses
- Gen 4:19 : 19 Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.
- Gen 29:28 : 28 Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
- Gen 30:15 : 15 But Leah replied,“Wasn’t it enough that you’ve taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes too?”“All right,” Rachel said,“he may go to bed with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
- Exod 26:3 : 3 Five curtains are to be joined, one to another, and the other five curtains are to be joined, one to another.
- 1 Sam 1:6-8 : 6 Her rival used to aggravate her to the point of exasperation, just to irritate her, since the LORD had not enabled her to have children. 7 This is how it would go year after year. As often as she went up to the LORD’s house, Peninnah would offend her that way.) So she cried and refused to eat. 8 Then her husband Elkanah said to her,“Hannah, why are you crying and why won’t you eat? Why are you so upset? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
- Mal 2:15 : 15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.