Mark 12:19
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19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that (A)if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man[a] must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
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- Mark 12:19 Greek his brother
Deuteronomy 25:5-10
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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. 7 And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall (D)go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.’ 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, (E)‘I do not wish to take her,’ 9 then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and (F)pull his sandal off his foot and (G)spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not (H)build up his brother's house.’ 10 And the name of his house[a] shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’
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- Deuteronomy 25:10 Hebrew its name
Ruth 4:5
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5 Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth[a] the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order (A)to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”
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- Ruth 4:5 Masoretic Text you also buy it from Ruth
Ruth 1:11-13
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11 But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb (A)that they may become your husbands? 12 Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons, 13 would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that (B)the hand of the Lord has gone out against me.”
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Genesis 38:8
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8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to (A)your brother's wife and (B)perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
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