Leviticus 20:21
21 aIf a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity. ▼▼Literally menstrual impurity
He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless. Deuteronomy 25:5
Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage
5 c“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 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.Matthew 14:3-4
3For eHerod had seized John and bound him and fput him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, ▼▼Some manuscripts his brother’s wife
4because John had been saying to him, h“It is not lawful for you to have her.” Matthew 22:24
24saying, “Teacher, Moses said, i‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’Mark 6:17
17 jFor it was Herod who had sent and seized John and kbound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her.Mark 12:19
19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that lif a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man ▼▼Greek his brother
must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Luke 3:19
19But nHerod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done,
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