18" 'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.


In Context

15 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her.

16 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother.

17 " 'Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

18 " 'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

19 " 'Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

20 " 'Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her.

Leviticus 18:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her,] to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time. ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:18Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her, neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:18And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:18And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside her, during her life.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:18And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness besides the other in her life-time.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:18|'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:18'And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:18Neither shall you take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.