Leviticus 18:14-15
18:14 You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not approach his wife to have sexual intercourse with her. 1 She is your aunt. 2
18:15 You must not have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have intercourse with her.
Leviticus 18:18
18:18 You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife 3 while she is still alive, 4 to have sexual intercourse with her.
Leviticus 20:10
20:10 If a man 5 commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, 6 both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
Leviticus 20:21
20:21 If a man has sexual intercourse with 7 his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; 8 they will be childless.
Leviticus 21:14
21:14 He must not marry 9 a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people 10 as a wife.
1 tn Heb “you must not draw near to his wife.” In the context this refers to approaching one’s aunt to have sexual intercourse with her, so this has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn As in v. 12 (see the note there), some mss and versions have “because she is your aunt.”
3 tn Or “as a concubine”; Heb “And a woman to her sister you shall not take to be a second wife [or “to be a concubine”].” According to HALOT 1059 s.v. III צרר, the infinitive “to be a second wife” (לִצְרֹר, litsror) is a denominative verb from II צָרָה A (“concubine; second wife”), which, in turn, derives from II צר “to treat with hostility” (cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 283, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 122).
4 tn Heb “on her in her life.”
5 tn Heb “And a man who.” The syntax here and at the beginning of the following verses elliptically mirrors that of v. 9, which justifies the rendering as a conditional clause.
6 tc The reading of the LXX minuscule mss has been followed here (see the BHS footnote a-a). The MT has a dittography, repeating “a man who commits adultery with the wife of” (see the explanation in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 328). The duplication found in the MT is reflected in some English versions, e.g., KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV.
7 tn Heb “takes.” The verb “to take” in this context means “to engage in sexual intercourse.”
8 sn See the note on Lev 18:7 above.
9 tn Heb “take.” In context this means “take as wife,” i.e., “marry.”
10 tc The MT has literally, “from his peoples,” but Smr, LXX, Syriac, Targum, and Tg. Ps.-J. have “from his people,” referring to the Israelites as a whole.