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Originally Posted by Schizowallflower";p="
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Originally Posted by JMS";p="
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.
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Good thing I don't have a brother. I wouldn't want his stretched-out sloppy seconds.  |
Yep.
That's another great example of "Old Covenant" stuff.
It used to be a brother's
obligation - his
duty - to marry his brother's widow if anything happened to him.
And that, had to do with the concept that there "weren't very many" Jews, and every kid was precious.
And so once again, to "fully" understand that, you'd have to go "outside" of the Bible, 'cause I mean, a lot of other cultures around the area had that same thing going on.