Deuteronomy 25:7 meaning and explanation
But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
Deuteronomy 25:7, Berean Standard Bible
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Moses is instructing Israel on the levirate duty, the custom by which a dead man's brother raised up an heir for him so his name and inheritance would not vanish from Israel. Here the widow is given a legal voice.
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