“‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.
⛓ Read Leviticus 20 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.
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A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
This statute declares it 'impurity' for a man to take his brother's wife, the precise offense John names against Herod for marrying Herodias. Together with Lev 18:16 it furnishes the explicit legal basis of the prophet's condemnation. Direct invocation of Torah.
High confidence'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity... they shall be childless.' This is the precise legal ground for John's 'It is not lawful for you to have her' against Herod's marriage to Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.
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