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Levirate marriage is a type of
marriage in
which the
brother of a
deceased man is
obliged to
marry his brother's widow.
Levirate marriage has been practiced...
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brother according to the
custom of
levirate marriage with Er's
widow Tamar. Onan
refused to
perform his duty as a
levirate and
instead "spilled his seed on...
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Yibbum (pronounced [jibum], Hebrew: ייבום) is the form of
levirate marriage found in Judaism. As
specified by
Deuteronomy 25:5–10, the
brother of a man...
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adoptive father; both
Joseph and Mary are
taken to be David's descendants.
Levirate marriage,
through which an
individual (such as Joseph) may have two legal...
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death of his wife or if his wife has
proven infertile. The
opposite is
levirate marriage. From an
anthropological standpoint, this type of
marriage strengthens...
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later date than the
Levirate marriage (Hebrew
practice of
marrying brother's
widow she has no son), but J. D.
Mayne justified levirate union as
merely an...
- of Er is a part,
secondarily aims to
either ****ert the
institution of
levirate marriage, or
present an
aetiological myth for its origin; Er's role in...
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close relative of Naomi's husband's family, is
therefore obliged by the
levirate law to
marry Ruth, Mahlon's widow, to
carry on his family's inheritance...
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supreme authority. Her
second marriage is a well-known
example of Goguryeo's
levirate marriage custom. Lady U was the
daughter of U So (우소; 于素). Her birthplace...
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Julius Afric**** is that both
Joseph and his
father were the sons of
Levirate marriages. A
third explanation proposed by
Augustine of
Hippo is that Joseph...