bSee Deut. 25:5-10
Genesis 38:8
8Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to ayour brother’s wife and bperform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”Genesis 38:11
11Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, c“Remain a widow in your father’s house, till Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained din her father’s house.Genesis 38:26
26Then Judah identified them and said, e“She is more righteous than I, since fI did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her again.Deuteronomy 25:5-10
Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage
5 g“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 hhusband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that ihis name may not be blotted out of Israel. 7And if the man does not wish to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall jgo 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.’ 8Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, k‘I do not wish to take her,’ 9then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and lpull his sandal off his foot and mspit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not nbuild up his brother’s house.’ 10And the name of his house ▼▼Hebrew its name
shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’ Ruth 1:11-12
11But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb pthat they may become your husbands? 12Turn 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,
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