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Text -- Deuteronomy 25:5-16 (NET)
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Respect for the Sanctity of Others
25:5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son , the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law .
25:6 Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother , thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel .
25:7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow , then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say , “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel ; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”
25:8 Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists , saying , “I don’t want to marry her,”
25:9 then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders , remove his sandal from his foot , and spit in his face . She will then respond , “Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother’s family line !”
25:10 His family name will be referred to in Israel as “the family of the one whose sandal was removed .”
25:11 If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight , and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker , and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals ,
25:12 then you must cut off her hand – do not pity her.
25:13 You must not have in your bag different stone weights , a heavy and a light one.
25:14 You must not have in your house different measuring containers , a large and a small one.
25:15 You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container , so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.
25:16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Moses |
Widow |
Abomination |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
HUSBAND'S BROTHER |
LAW OF MOSES |
Marriage |
Brother |
HEIR |
Inheritance |
RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY |
Measure |
Levirate Law |
SAUL |
Honesty |
JUSTICE |
GATE |
BAG |
Government |
Weights |
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NET Notes: Deu 25:5 This is the so-called “levirate” custom (from the Latin term levir, “brother-in-law”), an ancient provision whereby a man who ...
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NET Notes: Deu 25:7 Heb “want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister in law.” In the second instance the pronoun (“she”) has been used in the ...
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NET Notes: Deu 25:9 Heb “build the house of his brother”; TEV “refuses to give his brother a descendant”; NLT “refuses to raise up a son for...
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NET Notes: Deu 25:11 Heb “shameful parts.” Besides the inherent indelicacy of what she has done, the woman has also threatened the progenitive capacity of the ...
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NET Notes: Deu 25:13 Heb “a large and a small,” but since the issue is the weight, “a heavy and a light one” conveys the idea better in English.
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NET Notes: Deu 25:14 Heb “an ephah and an ephah.” An ephah refers to a unit of dry measure roughly equivalent to five U.S. gallons (just under 20 liters). On t...
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