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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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according to the
custom of
levirate marriage with the late Er's wife Tamar, Onan
instead refused to
perform his duty as a
levirate and "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...
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thinks that the
Niyoga is of a
later date than the
Levirate, but J. D.
Mayne justified regarding the
Levirate (
custom of the
Hebrews in
which marry with brother's...
- 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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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...
- have to
perform a
levirate marriage?” “She
neither performs halitzah nor does she enter into
levirate marriage, as the
mitzvah of
levirate marriage applies...
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Yevamot (יבמות "Brothers-in-Law")
deals with the
Jewish law of
yibbum (
levirate marriage) (Deut. 25:5–10) and
other topics such as the
status of minors...
