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Deuteronomy 25:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 25:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 He can be given up to forty lashes, but no more than that, for if he is given more than that, your brother might be shamed in your sight.
4 Do not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.[a]
Family Marriage.[b] 5 If brothers are living together, and one of them dies without having a son, then the widow of the deceased is not to marry outside of the family. Her husband’s brother will take her as his wife and thus perform the duty of her husband’s brother.
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- Deuteronomy 25:4 Threshing was done in the east with the help of animals. St. Paul applies this precept in 1 Cor 9:9 and 1 Tim 5:18 in explaining why those who live for the altar should live from the altar.
- Deuteronomy 25:5 The levirate (from Latin, levir, “husband’s brother”) was a common practice among many Eastern peoples (including the Assyrians and Hittites) and had for its purpose to ensure a posterity and, with this, the stability of inherited property (see the case proposed to Jesus by the Sadducees in Mt 22:23-26).
