Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsDeuteronomy 25
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Deuteronomy 25:5
His brother shall take her.
This proveth evidently that the prohibition, not to marry the brother's wife (Levit. 18.) was a positive law, binding only when the first brother dying left issue. [1] For dying without issue, his brother was bound by this law to marry the widow. In default of the brother, the next of kin was to marry her: and for default of nearer, the more remote. So Booz married Ruth [2]. Neither was it contrary, but agreeable to the law of nature, to marry the brother's wife when he was dead without issue, as is before noted Gen. 38.