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Ulangan 25:10

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Brother;   Inheritance;   Marriage;   Widow;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Shoes;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Barrenness;   Marriage;   Sandals;   Widow;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Inheritance;   Punishment;   Widow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Duty;   Immorality, Sexual;   Wealth;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Levirate Law;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   Heir;   Shealtiel;   Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adoption;   Avenger;   Court Systems;   Family;   Kinsman;   Levirate Law;   Levirate Law, Levirate Marriage;   Resurrection;   Ruth;   Shealtiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Family;   Firstborn;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Spitting;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - House;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Foot;   Heir;   Husband's Brother;   Law in the Old Testament;   Relationships, Family;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Blood-Relationship;   Conditions;   Family and Family Life;   ḥaliẓah;   Marriage;   Mishnah;   Nashim;  

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Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
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Contextual Overview

5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them dye, and haue no chylde, the wyfe of the dead shall not marry without vnto a straunger: but his kinsman shall go in vnto her, & take her to wife, and occupie the rowme of his kinsman. 6 And the eldest sonne whiche she beareth, shall succeede in the name of his brother whiche is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man wyll not take his kinswoman, then let her go vp to the gate vnto the elders, and say: My kinsman refuseth to stirre vp vnto his brother a name in Israel, neither wyll he marry me. 8 Then the elders of his citie shall call hym, and commune with hym: and if he stande and say, I wyll not take her: 9 Then shall his kinswoman come vnto hym in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe of his foote, and spit in his face, and aunswere, and say: So shal it be done vnto that man, that doth not buylde vp his brothers house. 10 And his name shalbe called in Israel, the vnshodhouse. 11 If when men striue together one with another, the wife of the one drawe neare for to ryd her husbande out of the handes of hym that smyteth hym, and put foorth her hande and take hym by the secretes: 12 Thou shalt cut of her hande, and let not thyne eye pitie her.

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Cross-References

Genesis 23:16
And Abraham hearkened vnto Ephron, and wayed him the siluer which he had sayde in the aundience of the sonnes of Heth, euen foure hundred syluer sicles of currant money amongest marchauntes.
Genesis 49:31
Where as were buried Abraham and Sara his wyfe, and where as were buried Isahac and Rebecca his wife: & there I buried Lea.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his name shall be called in Israel,.... Not his particular and personal name, but his family; for it seems that not only a mark of infamy was set upon him for refusing to marry his brother's widow, but upon his family also;

the house of him that hath his shoe loosed; which, as Leo of Modena says s, was repeated by her three times; and at every time the people with a loud voice answer and call him, one that had his shoe loosed; and then the Rabbin tells the man that he is at liberty now to marry whom he pleases; and if he desires a certificate from them of this setting free his kinswoman, they presently give him one; and she also had a writing given to her by the judges, certifying the same, that she was free also to marry another; of which the following is a short form or copy t.

"In such or such a session (or court), such an one, the daughter of such an one, plucked off the shoe of such an one, the son of such an one, before us; she brought him before us, and she loosed the shoe of his right foot, and spit before him spittle, which was seen by us upon the ground; and said, so shall it be done to the man that would not build up his brother's house.''

A larger form may be seen in Maimonides u, as well as a type and copy of the matrimonial contract. From this law an high priest was free, Leviticus 21:14; and so a king, according to the Jewish canon w.

s History, ut supra, sect. 5. (Leo Modena's History of Rites, &c. l. 1. sect. 5.) t T. Hieros. Sanhedrin, fol. 19. 1. u Hilchot Yebum Vechalitzah, c. 4. sect. 29. w Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The law of levirate marriage. The law on this subject is not unique to the Jews, but is found (see Genesis 38:8) in all essential respects the same among various Oriental nations, ancient and modern. The rules in these verses, like those upon divorce, do but incorporate existing immemorial usages, and introduce various wise and politic limitations and mitigations of them. The root of the obligation here imposed upon the brother of the deceased husband lies in the primitive idea of childlessness being a great calamity (compare Genesis 16:4; and note), and extinction of name and family one of the greatest that could happen (compare Deuteronomy 9:14; Psalms 109:12-15). To avert this the ordinary rules as to intermarriage are in the case in question (compare Leviticus 18:16) set aside. The obligation was onerous (compare Ruth 4:6), and might be repugnant; and it is accordingly considerably reduced and restricted by Moses. The duty is recognized as one of affection for the memory of the deceased; it is not one which could be enforced at law. That it continued down to the Christian era is apparent from the question on this point put to Jesus by the Sadducees (see the marginal references).

Deuteronomy 25:5

No child - literally, “no son.” The existence of a daughter would clearly suffice. The daughter would inherit the name and property of the father; compare Numbers 27:1-11.

Deuteronomy 25:9

Loose his shoe from off his foot - In token of taking from the unwilling brother all right over the wife and property of the deceased. Planting the foot on a thing was an usual symbol of lordship and of taking possession (compare Genesis 13:17; Joshua 10:24), and loosing the shoe and handing it to another in like manner signified a renunciation and transfer of right and title (compare Ruth 4:7-8; Psalms 60:8, and Psalms 108:9). The widow here is directed herself, as the party slighted and injured, to deprive her brother-law of his shoe, and spit in his face (compare Numbers 12:14). The action was intended to aggravate the disgrace conceived to attach to the conduct of the man.

Deuteronomy 25:10

The house ... - Equivalent to “the house of the barefooted one.” To go barefoot was a sign of the most abject condition; compare 2 Samuel 15:30.


 
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