21 If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is impurity.(A) He has violated the intimacy that belongs to his brother;[a](B) they will be childless.

Holiness in the Land

22 “You are to keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.(C) 23 You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 20:21 Lit has uncovered his brother’s nakedness

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.

22 Ye 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.

23 And 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.

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