Imamat 20:21

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Bila seorang laki-laki mengambil isteri saudaranya, itu suatu kecemaran, karena ia melanggar hak saudaranya laki-laki, dan mereka akan tidak beranak.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Bila seorang laki-laki mengambil isteri saudaranya, itu suatu kecemaran, karena ia melanggar hak saudaranya laki-laki, dan mereka akan tidak beranak.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka jikalau seorang telah mengambil bini saudaranya laki-laki, ia itulah sumbang adanya, dan ia telah mencemarkan tempat tidur saudaranya, maka mereka itu akan tinggal bulus.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ And the man that breaketh wedlocke with another mans wyfe, euen he that breaketh wedlocke with his neyghbours wyfe, let be slayne both the adulterer and the adultresse. ¹¹ And the man that lyeth with his fathers wyfe, and vncouereth his fathers nakednes, let them both die, their blood be vpon them. ¹² If a man lye with his daughter in lawe, let them dye both of them: they haue wrought abhomination, their blood be vpon them. ¹³ If a man also lye with mankinde after the maner as with women kynde, they haue both committed an abhomination: let them dye, their blood be vpon them. ¹⁴ And if a man take a wyfe, and her mother also, it is wickednesse: They shall burne with fire both hym & them, that there be no wickednesse among you. ¹⁵ And if a man lye with a beast, let hym dye, and ye shall slea the beast also. ¹⁶ If a woman go vnto any beast, and lye downe thereto, thou shalt kyll the woman and the beast also: let them dye, their blood be vpon them. ¹⁷ If a man take his sister, his fathers daughter, or his mothers daughter, & see her nakednesse, and she his nakednesse, it is a wicked thing, they shalbe cut of in the sight of their people: he hath vncouered his sisters nakednesse, he shall beare his sinne. ¹⁸ If a man lye with a woman hauing her natural disease, and vncouer her nakednesse, and open her fountayne, and she also open the foutayne of her blood, they shall both be cut of from among their people. ¹⁹ Thou shalt not vncouer the nakednesse of thy mothers sister, nor of thy fathers sister: for he that doth so, hath vncouered his next kyn, they shal beare their misdoyng.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his brother's: Leviticus 18:16, Matthew 14:3, Matthew 14:4

an unclean thing: Heb. a separation

Reciprocal: Mark 6:18 - It is

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if a man shall take his brother's wife,.... To his wife, whether in his life, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, or whether after his death, unless when there is no issue, then he was obliged to it by another law, Deuteronomy 25:5; which is now ceased, and the law in

Leviticus 18:16; here referred to, stands clear of all exceptions:

it [is] an unclean thing; or a "separation" k from which a man should remove and keep at a distance, as from menstruous women, of whom this word is used; and so denotes that it is by all means to be avoided, as an abominable and detestable thing; and it is observed that of all copulations it is only used of this: and the Jewish writers, as Aben Ezra and others, observe that this case is somewhat like that of a menstruous woman, who in the time of her separation is unlawful, but when out of it lawful; and so, in this case, a brother's wife might not be taken, he being alive; but after his death she might, if she had no son, according to the law before referred to, but that is now abolished:

he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; his wife's, which was his brother's; which through nearness of kin, he ought not to have done; and the same holds good of a wife's sister, the relation being the same:

they shall be childless; they shall have none by such a marriage or copulation, and die without any; and as this supposes the brother's wife to have children by her first husband, or otherwise while the Jewish law lasted, it would not have been unlawful to marry her husband's brother; the meaning may be, that these should die before them, or rather, as some think, those that might be born of such a marriage should not be reckoned legitimate, and so not inherit.

k נדה "separatio", Drusius,