Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
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Genesis 38:8
Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
Deuteronomy 25:5
“When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
Ruth 4:5
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”
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Ruth 1:11
But Naomi said, “Return, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
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Leviticus 18:16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.
Matthew 22:25
Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother;
Luke 20:33
In the resurrection therefore, which one’s wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”