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Deuteronomy 25:5-6
English Standard Version
Deuteronomy 25:5-6
English Standard Version
Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage
5 (A)“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her (B)husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 6 And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that (C)his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
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