KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Leviticus 18:16–18
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Leviticus 18:16
16Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
16*Thou shalt not vncouer the nakednesse of thy brothers wife: it is thy brothers nakednesse.
- Chap. 20.21.
Leviticus 18:17
17Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
17Thou shalt not vncouer the nakednesse of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her sonnes daughter, or her daughters daughter, to vncouer her nakednesse: For they are her neere kinsewomen: it is wickednesse.
Leviticus 18:18
18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
18Neither shalt thou take a wife ‖to her sister, to vexe her, to vncouer her nakednes besides the other, in her life time.
- Or, one wife to another.
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DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 18:16
A male sibling; a near kinsman; or a fellow member of a people or faith, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Leviticus 18:17
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Female relatives or women of the same family, tribe, or people.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Leviticus 18:18
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To harass, torment.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
At the side of; apart from; or in addition to.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A different or additional person or thing; the remaining one of two or more.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 16
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Open the full verse study5¶ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.
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Open the full verse study21And 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.
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Open the full verse study19Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
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Open the full verse study24Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
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Open the full verse study19But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
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Open the full verse study17For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for he had married her.
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Open the full verse study3¶ For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife.
4For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study14And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
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Open the full verse study7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
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Open the full verse study23Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
From verse 18
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Open the full verse study28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
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Open the full verse study15And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes.
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Open the full verse study15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
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Open the full verse study6And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
7And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
8Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
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Open the full verse study19¶ And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
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Open the full verse study3The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
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