Leviticus 20:21
Modern Translations
New International Version
"'If a man marries his brother's wife, it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless.

New Living Translation
“If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has violated his brother, and the guilty couple will remain childless.

English Standard Version
If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

Berean Study Bible
If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.

New American Standard Bible
If there is a man who takes his brother’s wife, it is detestable; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They will be childless.

NASB 1995
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 1977
‘If there is a man who takes his brother’s wife, it is abhorrent; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.

Amplified Bible
If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is a hated and unclean thing; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They will be childless.

Christian Standard Bible
If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has violated the intimacy that belongs to his brother; they will be childless.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If a man marries his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has shamed his brother; they will be childless."

Contemporary English Version
And if you marry your sister-in-law, neither of you will ever have any children.

Good News Translation
If a man takes his brother's wife, they will die childless. He has done a ritually unclean thing and has disgraced his brother.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Whoever marries his brother's wife violates his brother's marriage and does an unclean thing. That man and woman will have no children.

International Standard Version
"If a man takes his brother's wife, it's immoral. He has exposed his brother's nakedness. They'll be childless."

NET Bible
If a man has sexual intercourse with his brother's wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother's nakedness; they will be childless.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.

King James 2000 Bible
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

New Heart English Bible
"'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

World English Bible
"'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

American King James Version
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

American Standard Version
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

A Faithful Version
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

English Revised Version
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
So the man that taketh his brothers wife, committeth filthines, because he hath vncouered his brothers shame: they shalbe childles.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
If a man take his brothers wyfe, it is an vncleane thyng: he hath vncouered his brothers nakednesse, they shalbe chyldlesse.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Yf eny man take his brothers wyfe, yt is an vncleane thinge: they shalbe without children, because he hath vncouered his brothers secretes.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Yf a ma take his brothers wife, it is an vnclene thinge, he hath vncouered his brothers secrettes, they shalbe childlesse therfore.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And a man who takes his brother’s wife—it [is] impurity; he has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they are childless.

Young's Literal Translation
And a man who taketh his brother's wife -- it is impurity; the nakedness of his brother he hath uncovered; childless they are.

Smith's Literal Translation
And a man who shall take his brother's wife, it is uncleanness: he uncovered his brother's nakedness: they shall die childless.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that marrieth his brother's wife, doth an unlawful thing, he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness: they shall be without children.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Whoever will have married his brother’s wife has done an unlawful thing; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be without children.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And a man who will take the wife of his brother exposes him because he uncovers the nakedness of his brother; they shall be without children.

Lamsa Bible
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an iniquity, for he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Whoever shall take his brother's wife, it is uncleanness; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall die childless.
















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