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Mambila of
northern Cameroon, in
regard to "Inheritance of wives: both
levirates are
practised throughout the tribe". As
among the
Maragoli of western...
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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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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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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...
- 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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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...
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following Mufasa's death, Scar
tries to get
Sarabi to be his mate in a
levirate marriage, but she
turns down his advances.
Tiffany Boone voices young Sarabi...
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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...
- by
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...
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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...
