Leviticus 18:18

1 Samuel 1:6-8; Exodus 26:3; Genesis 29:28; Genesis 30:15; Genesis 4:19; Malachi 2:15

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To vex her - literally, to “bind” or “pack together”. The Jewish commentators illustrate this by the example of Leah and Rachel Genesis 29:30 ....
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to (i) vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time]. (i) By seeing your af...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Forbidden Degrees of Marriage. After a general preface ( Leviticus 18:6 ) the relationships are given in detail. The phrase uncover the nakedness i...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18. Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister. By this passage certain froward persons pretend that it is permitted, if a man has lost his...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her , to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time . A wife to her sister - Tho...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. Neither shalt thou tak...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Law of Forbidden Degrees of Marriage, and of Chastity 3. Some of the unions here forbidden as incestuous were permitted among the nations of antiq...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

In her life time ] This implies that after the death of the first wife a man might marry her sister. It is not a law against polygamy but only aga...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A wife to her sister. — That is, a man is here forbidden to take a second sister for a wife to or in addition to the one who is already his wife, a...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE LAW OF HOLINESS: CHASTITY Leviticus 18:1-30 Chapter S 18, 19, and 20, by a formal introduction Leviticus 18:1-5 and a formal closing, Le...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

At this point in the enunciation of the laws of separation they assume a slightly altered character. So far, the fundamental matters of relationships...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

These precepts, considered in a moral sense, carry with them conviction of their own propriety. And if explained spiritually, they serve to convey th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister ,.... Both of them together, as Jarchi; two sisters at one and the same time; so the Targum of Jonathan...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time]. Ver. 18. A wife to her...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

A wife to her sister The meaning seems to be, that no man should take to wife two sisters, which had sometimes been done, as we see in the example...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

FORBIDDING SEXUAL SINS (vv. 1-30) Chapter 17 has dealt with sin directly against God; now chapter 18 speaks of sin in relationship with other crea...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Incest Defined and Forbidden; Against Marrying Near Relations. B. C. 1490....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The word sister is here understood, either, 1. Properly, so some; whence others infer that it is lawful to marry one's wife's sister after the wi...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Relationships Within Families ( Leviticus 18:6-18 ). Leviticus 18:6 “None of you shall approach to any who are near of kin to him, to uncover...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Incestuous Marriages: Domestic Purity SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 18:2 .—Speak unto them and say, I am the Lord your God. Jehovah is the sole...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 18:21 . Molech, or Moloch, was the chief idol of the Sabians, and of the Ammonites. 1 Kings 11:7 ; 1 Kings 11:33 . To this idol Solomo...
The Biblical Illustrator

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him. Consanguinity 1. God the institutor of marriage ( Leviticus 18:6 ). 2. Faith i...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PART III . SECTION III . EXPOSITION MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT . This being the subject of the three following chapter...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Unlawful Marriages
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, one wife to another, in the relationship known as bigamy, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Thou shalt not take a wife to her sister — Perhaps this text doth not simply forbid the taking one wife to another, but the doing it in such a mann...

¹⁸ Neither shalt thou take a wifeb to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

Related Commentaries of Leviticus 18:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Leviticus 18:18