Deuteronomy - 25:6 Meaning

“And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.”

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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