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Levirate Marriage N Custom Man Obligated Marry Brother's

Word levirate (marriage)
Definition n. A custom by which a man is obligated to marry his brother's widow.
Source The New Oxford Annotated Bible, p. 393

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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