Verse Lens · Context pointer
Leviticus 18:16 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 16. 16Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
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Role in This Section
This verse prohibits sexual access to a brother's wife within this legal list.
Read It With
- Leviticus 18:6-18
Place Leviticus 18:16 inside 18:6-18. This verse prohibits sexual access to a brother's wife within this legal list. Its surrounding procedure or case makes the larger point: The repeated command not to uncover nakedness maps mother, father's wife, sisters, grandchildren, aunts, daughters-in-law, sisters-in-law, a woman and her daughter or granddaughter, and two sisters during one lifetime.
Why It Needs Context
Leviticus 18:6-18 must remain the teaching frame because this verse prohibits sexual access to a brother's wife within this legal list without completing the unit's reasoning.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 18:6-18 — Kinship boundaries restrict a male household head's sexual accessSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 18:6-18, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 18:6-18
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