Leviticus 18:16
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: because it is the nakedness of thy brother.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Turpitudinem uxoris fratris tui non revelabis : quia turpitudo fratris tui est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀσχημοσύνην γυναικὸς ἀδελφοῦ σου οὐκ ἀποκαλύψεις· ἀσχημοσύνη ἀδελφοῦ σού ἐστιν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עֶרְוַ֥ת אֵֽשֶׁת אָחִ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תְגַלֵּ֑ה עֶרְוַ֥ת אָחִ֖יךָ הִֽוא
Haydock's commentary
Brother; though she may be even divorced from him. (St. Augustine, q. 61.) If the brother were dead without offspring, the next relation was bound to marry her; (Deuteronomy xxv. 5) and the kinsman of Booz was accounted infamous for neglecting this duty, Ruth iv. 6.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.