Deuteronomy - 25:5 Meaning
“If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
25:5-12 The custom here regulated seems to have been in the Jewish law in order to keep inheritances distinct; now it is unlawful.
“This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;”
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