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Selected Verse: Mark 6:18 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Mr 6:18	Strong Concordance	For [1063] John [2491] had said [3004] unto Herod [2264], [3754] It is [1832] not [3756] lawful [1832] for thee [4671] to have [2192] thy [4675] brother's [80] wife [1135].
	King James	For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife--Noble fidelity! It was not lawful because Herod's wife and Herodias husband were both living; and further, because the parties were within the forbidden degrees of consanguinity (see Lev 20:21); Herodias being the daughter of Aristobulus, the brother of both Herod and Philip [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 18.5,4].

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife--Noble fidelity! It was not lawful because Herod's wife and Herodias husband were both living; and further, because the parties were within the forbidden degrees of consanguinity (see Lev 20:21); Herodias being the daughter of Aristobulus, the brother of both Herod and Philip [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 18.5,4].

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²¹ And if a man [0376] shall take [03947] his brother's [0251] wife [0802], it is an unclean thing [05079]: he hath uncovered [01540] his brother's [0251] nakedness [06172]; they shall be childless [06185].