Leviticus 18:16
You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
In Context
15Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:5If 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.
Matthew 22:24Master, Moses said, If a man, at the time of his death, has no children, let his brother take his wife, and get a family for his brother;
Mark 12:19Master, in the law Moses says, If a man's brother comes to his end, and has a wife still living and no child, it is right for his brother to take his wife, and get a family for his brother.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:7-19
Incest Defined and Forbidden; Against Marrying Near Relations. ( b. c. 1490.) 6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord . 7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness. 9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she… Read the whole commentary →