Leviticus 18:16 BSB

Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עֶרְוַ֥ת	'er.Vat	[the] nakedness of	H6172 →
אֵֽשֶׁת־	'e.shet-	[the] wife of	H802 →
אָחִ֖יךָ	'a.Chi.kha	brother your	H251 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תְגַלֵּ֑ה	te.ga.Leh	you will uncover	H1540 →
עֶרְוַ֥ת	'er.Vat	[is] [the] nakedness of	H6172 →
אָחִ֖יךָ	'a.Chi.kha	brother your	H251 →
הִֽוא׃ ס	hi'	it	H1931 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 22:24
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 25:5–10
  When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Deuteronomy 25:5
When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty…
leads to
- Luke 20:28
  “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Mark 12:19
  “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 22:24
  “Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
- Genesis 38:8–9
  Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- Ruth 1:12–13
  Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
Through
Mark 6:17
For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.
leads to
- Luke 3:19–20
  But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,
- Matthew 11:2
  Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent his disciples

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Matthew 14:4because John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”Mark 6:18For John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife!”Leviticus 20:21If 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.Deuteronomy 25:5When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.Mark 12:19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.Matthew 22:24“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.Genesis 38:8Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”Mark 6:17For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.Luke 3:19But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,Matthew 14:3–4Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

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