Leviticus 18:16
Don't have sex with your brother's wife and bring shame on your brother.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
In Context
15Don't have sex with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife. Don't have sex with her.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:5When two brothers live near to each other and one of them dies without having a son, the widow is not to marry a stranger outside the family. Her husband's brother is to marry her and sleep with her, fulfilling the requirements of a brother-in-law to provide her with children.
Matthew 22:24They asked him, “Teacher, Moses said that if a married man dies without having children, his brother should marry his widow and have children on behalf of his brother.
Mark 12:19“Teacher, Moses instructed us that if a man dies, leaving his widow childless, then his brother should marry his wife, and have children by her on his behalf.
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 →