Leviticus 18:18 Parallel Translations

While your wife is living, never marry her sister as a rival wife and have sexual intercourse with her.(GOD'S WORD®)

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival to her , to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

BBE:

And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

DBY:

And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside her, during her life.

ERV:

And thou shalt not take a woman to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

JPS:

And thou shalt not take a woman to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime.

WBS:

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness besides the other in her life-time.

WEB:

"'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

YLT:

'And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

Leviticus 18:18 Cross References

XREF:

Leviticus 18:17 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is lewdness.

Leviticus 18:19 'Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

18:18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to {i} vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time].
(i) By seeing your affection more bent to her sister than to her.

WES:

18:18 Thou shalt not take a wife to her sister - Perhaps this text doth not simply forbid the taking one wife to another, but the doing it in such a manner or for such an end, that he may vex or punish, or revenge himself of the former; which probably was a common motive amongst that hardhearted people to do so.

MHC:

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.

CONC:

Addition Adversary Alive Beside Besides Competition During Lifetime Life-time Marry Nakedness Relations Rival Sexual Sister Uncover Uncovering Vex Wife Wife's Yet

Addition Adversary Alive Besides Competition Life Marry Nakedness Relations Rival Sexual Sister Time Uncover Uncovering Vex Wife Wife's

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