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Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother's widow. Levirate marriage has been practiced

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

brother according to the custom of levirate marriage with Er's widow Tamar. Onan refused to perform his duty as a levirate and instead "spilled his seed on

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

wife or if his wife has proven infertile. The fraternal equivalent is levirate marriage. From an anthropological standpoint, this type of marriage strengthens

date than the Levirate marriage (Hebrew practice of marrying a brother's widow if she has no son), but J. D. Mayne justified levirate union as merely

of Er is a part, secondarily aims to either assert the institution of levirate marriage, or present an aetiological myth for its origin; Er's role in

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

supreme authority. Her second marriage is a well-known example of Goguryeo's levirate marriage custom. Lady U was the daughter of U So (우소; 于素). Her birthplace

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