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
And Judah will say to Onan, go in to thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
Deuteronomy 25:5
If brethren shall dwell together and one of them died, and a son not to him, the wife of the dead shall not be without to a man a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and he took her to him for a wife, and he acted the husband's brother to her.
Ruth 4:5
And Boaz will say, In the day of thy buying the field from the hand of Naomi, and from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, thou boughtest it to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
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Ruth 1:11
And Naomi will say, Turn back, my daughters: wherefore will ye go with me? are yet to me sons in my bowels, and they were to you for husbands?
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Leviticus 18:16
The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou shalt not uncover: it is thy brother's nakedness.
Matthew 22:25
And with us were seven brethren: and the first, having married, died; and having no seed, he left his wife to his brother.
Luke 20:33
Then in the rising up, whose wife of them is she for seven had her a wife.