Leviticus 18:16

16 aYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.

Numbers 36:8-9

8And bevery daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel shall be wife to one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers. 9So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall hold on to its own inheritance.’”

Deuteronomy 25:5-10

Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage

5 cIf 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 dhusband’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 ehis 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 fgo 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, g‘I do not wish to take her,’ 9then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and hpull his sandal off his foot and ispit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not jbuild 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

11But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb lthat they may become your husbands?

Ruth 4:5-11

5Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth
Masoretic Text you also buy it from Ruth
the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order nto perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”
6 oThen the redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”

7 pNow this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel. 8So when the redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” he drew off his sandal. 9Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to qChilion and to Mahlon. 10Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, rto perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.” 11Then all the people who were sat the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, twho together ubuilt up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in vEphrathah and wbe renowned in Bethlehem,

Matthew 22:23-27

Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection

23The same day xSadducees came to him, ywho say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, 24saying, “Teacher, Moses said, zIf a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’ 25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. 26So too the second and third, down to the seventh. 27After them all, the woman died.
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