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Leviticus 20:21 KJV
Leviticus · chapter 20 · verse 21
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.Leviticus 20:21 · King James Version
Leviticus 20:21 in context
19And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
20And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
21And 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.
22Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
23And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- brother'sʼâcha brother )H251 →
- uncoveredgâlâhto denudeH1540 →
- nakednessʻervâhnudity, literally or figurativelyH6172 →
- takelâqachto takeH3947 →
- wifeʼishshâha womanH802 →
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Sins against the seventh commandment are here ordered to be severely punished. These are sins which, of all others, fools are most apt to make a mock at; but God would teach those the heinousness of the guilt by the extremity of the punishment that would not otherwise be taught it. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-21