Genesis 38:8; Deuteronomy 25:5; Matthew 22:24; Mark 12:19; Luke 20:28

Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to tyour brother’s wife and uperform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.


Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage

eIf brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her fhusband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.


24 saying, Teacher, Moses said, uIf a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.


19 Teacher, Moses wrote for us that mif a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man1 must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.


28 and they asked him a question, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote for us ythat if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man1 must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.