“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.
⛓ Read Leviticus 18 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
John's charge, 'It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife,' directly invokes the Levitical prohibition against uncovering the nakedness of a brother's wife. The legal ground of John's rebuke is this statute (cf. Lev 20:21). The verbal and legal correspondence is explicit.
High confidenceJohn's charge, 'It is not lawful for you to have her,' rests directly on the Torah prohibition against uncovering the nakedness of one's brother's wife; Lev 20:21 specifies the explicit ban on taking a brother's wife. John's rebuke is a halakhic citation of this statute.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Herod's offense of taking his brother's wife is the very union forbidden by Leviticus 18:16 / 20:21, the legal basis of John's reproof. The Torah prohibition underlies the charge even though Luke does not cite it; low and contested.
Low confidence