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The Ark Passes Over the Jordan, James Tissot

Deuteronomy 25:5

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Deuteronomy 25:5 (WEB)

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her 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.

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John Damascene

Eusebius of Caesarea

  • “…to nature by the succession of legitimate offspring, and according to law whenever another raised up a child to the name of a brother dying childless; for because a clear hope of resurrection was not yet given they had a representation of the future promise by a kind of mortal resurrection, in order that the…” — editor's note: The law is stated in Deut. xxv. 5 sq.

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Ambrose of Milan

John Chrysostom

Tertullian

  • “If, then, forasmuch as there is in the law a precept that a man is to take in marriage the wife of his brother if he have died without children, for the purpose of raising up seed to his brother; and this may happen repeatedly to the same person, according to that crafty question of the Sadducees; men…” — editor's note: Deut. xxv. 5, 6.

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  • “…childless, when it even prescribed such a marriage, in order that by his own brother, and from his own wife, seed might be reckoned to the deceased husband), and was in consequence cast into prison, and finally, by the same Herod, was even put to death.” — editor's note: Deut. xxv. 5, 6.

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Augustine of Hippo

Gregory the Great

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  • Genesis 38:8 and Deuteronomy 25:5 share the same wording (11 words).

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