Leviticus 18:18

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Leviticus 18:18

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

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KJV

King James Version

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time].

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WEB

World English Bible

“‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.

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ASV

American Standard Version

And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Leviticus 18

¹⁶ You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.

¹⁷ You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

¹⁸ You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

¹⁹ You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.

²⁰ You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.

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