...comfort and support her aged mother-inlaw. It was ordered by the God of Israel (Deut. xxv. 5, 6), " If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and...marry without unto a stranger : her husband's brother (or next kinsman) shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's...

...which had perished. What the law of the duty of the brother-in-law had been, is evident from Moses, " If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the deceased shall not marry abroad to a strange man : her husband's brother shall...

...ordained in certain cases, as in Deuteronomy, the twenty-fifth chapter and fifth verse, which commands, " If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and...husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to wife." Henry's advocates, not too well read in the Bible, on hearing the Mosaic law expounded to them,...

...killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife " (2 Sam. xii. 10). " The wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger " (Deut. xxv. 5). So after Er's death, mention is made of his wife (Gen. xxxviii. 8). After Saul's...

...the family.' Such is Toda expression. The following was early Semitic custom (see Deuteronomy xxv. 5) : 'If brethren dwell together, and one of them...marry without unto a stranger ; her husband's brother ' — or ' next kinsman,' says a marginal note — ' shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife,...

...the family.' Such is Toda expression. The following was early Semitic custom (see Deuteronomy xxv. 5): 'If brethren dwell together, and one of them die,...shall not marry without unto a stranger; her husband's brother'—or ' next kinsman,' says a marginal note—' shall go in unto her, and take her to him to...

...name, his courage and his faith. The book of Deuteronomy puts on record a law that " if brethren live together, and one of them die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger ; her husband's broj ther shall take her to wife, and the first born whom she...

...custom, but was legally sanctioned by Deut. xxv. 5-10. The main provisions run thus (ver. 5 f.) : " If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and...child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without (that is, out of the family) unto a stranger : her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take...

...the verystatute itself before us. It is recorded in Deut. xxv. 5-10, and runs thus : — If kinsmen dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry 1 This singular, and, if judged by modern standards, immoral, law of Levirate marriage, like other...

...Deuteronomy xxv chap., and from the 5th to the 10th verses, referring to the preservation of families : If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and...husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her unto him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, that the first-born...