Leviticus 18:15
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New International Version (©2011)
"'Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, so you must not have sexual relations with her.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You are not to have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; you are not to have sex with her.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"You are not to expose the nakedness of your daughter-in-law. She's the wife of your son. You are not to have sexual relations with her.

NET Bible (©2006)
You must not have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife. You must not have intercourse with her.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Never have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife. Never have sexual intercourse with her.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

American King James Version
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter in law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: because she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou discover her shame.

Darby Bible Translation
The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law shalt thou not uncover: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son's wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

World English Bible
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.

Young's Literal Translation
The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou dost not uncover; she is thy son's wife; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:1-30 Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts. - Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou shall not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law,.... Shall not he with her in his son's lifetime, or marry her after his death:

she is that son's wife; and so one flesh with him, and who is of the same flesh and blood with his father, and therefore the nearness of the relation forbids such incestuous copulation or marriage:

thou shall not uncover her nakedness; or have carnal knowledge of her, whether in the life or after the death of his son, even then marriage with her is not lawful.

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Unlawful Sexual Relations
…14You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach to his wife: she is your aunt. 15You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter in law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 16You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness. …

Leviticus 20:12 "'If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.
Ezekiel 22:11 In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor's wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father's daughter.