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To: Lexinom

Levirate marriage makes no exceptions for polygamy.


30 posted on 07/27/2015 10:02:50 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: taxcontrol

I believe this means where a younger brother was responsible for wedding (and then bedding) the widow of an older brother who died childless, so as to attempt to father children to the name of the older brother.

And if little brother had a wife... now he has more....

It wasn’t ideal, but neither was it considered an unalloyed evil.


32 posted on 07/27/2015 10:10:52 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: taxcontrol

Big problem in arrangements like this is, of course, jealousy!


33 posted on 07/27/2015 10:14:54 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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