^18:18You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife²⁶ while she is still alive,²⁷ to have sexual intercourse with her.

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Footnotes

26 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 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 [], , and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [], ).
27 Heb “on her in her life.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“ ‘Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.

NLTNew Living Translation

“While your wife is living, do not marry her sister and have sexual relations with her, for they would be rivals.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And you must not take as wife a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her during her life.

KJV 1900King James Version

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

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