Leviticus 18:16
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English Standard Version
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.

New American Standard Bible
'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.

King James Bible
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother's wife; it will shame your brother.

International Standard Version
"You are not to have sexual relations with your brother's wife. She's the nakedness of your brother.

NET Bible
You must not have sexual intercourse with your brother's wife; she is your brother's nakedness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never have sexual intercourse with your sister-in-law. She is your brother's wife.

King James 2000 Bible
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

American King James Version
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: because it is the nakedness of thy brother.

Darby Bible Translation
The nakedness of thy brother's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy brother's nakedness.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.

World English Bible
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

Young's Literal Translation
The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it is thy brother's nakedness.
Lexicon
Thou shalt not uncover
galah  (gaw-law')
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
the nakedness
`ervah  (er-vaw')
nudity, literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace, blemish) -- nakedness, shame, unclean(-ness).
of thy brother's
'ach  (awkh)
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 1) -- another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other.
wife
'ishshah  (ish-shaw')
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman
it is thy brother's
'ach  (awkh)
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 1) -- another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other.
nakedness
`ervah  (er-vaw')
nudity, literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace, blemish) -- nakedness, shame, unclean(-ness).
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