| Leviticus 20:21 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | If there is a man who takes his brother's wife, it is abhorrent; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness. They will be childless. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Whoever marries his brother's wife violates his brother's marriage and does an unclean thing. That man and woman will have no children.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. |
| ASV: | And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. |
| BBE: | And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children. |
| DBY: | And if a man take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness: they shall be childless. |
| ERV: | And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. |
| JPS: | And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. |
| WBS: | And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. |
| WEB: | "'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. |
| YLT: | And a man who taketh his brother's wife -- it is impurity; the nakedness of his brother he hath uncovered; childless they are. |
| Leviticus 20:21 Cross References |
| XREF: | Leviticus 18:16 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 20:21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it [is] an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's {h} nakedness; they shall be childless.
(h) Read Le 18:16. |
| WES: | 20:21 His brother's wife - Except in the case allowed by God, Deu 25:5. |
| MHC: | 20:10-27 These verses repeat what had been said before, but it was needful there should be line upon line. What praises we owe to God that he has taught the evil of sin, and the sure way of deliverance from it! May we have grace to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things; may we have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness, but reprove them. |
| CONC: | Abhorrent Act Brother Brother's Childless Dishonored Impurity Marries Nakedness Shame Takes Taketh Unclean Uncovered Wife |
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