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Deuteronomy 25:4-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Deuteronomy 25:4-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.(A)
Levirate Marriage
5 “When brothers reside together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, taking her in marriage and performing the duty of a husband’s brother to her,(B) 6 and the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed to the name of the deceased brother, so that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.(C)
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