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Leviratical   Listen
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Leviratical, Levirate  adj.  Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother. "The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother."





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... country, practise polygamy, it being contrary, not to the letter, but to the spirit of the law of Moses, which nevertheless provides for cases where a man has two wives at the same time; the inconvenience of which practice is several times pointed out, and which was also inconsistent with the Levirate law. (See Jahn, s. 151.; and the Mishna, [Hebrew: SDR NSHYM], which designates more wives than one ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 • Various


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