Bible verse
You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.
Leviticus 18:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from Leviticus 18.
12 You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
13 You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.
14 You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.
15 You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.
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.
KJV
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it [is] thy brother’s nakedness.
ASV
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
ERV
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
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