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levirate and custom
Since there is no heir to inherit Elimelech's land, levirate custom required a close relative ( usually the dead man's brother ) to marry the widow of the deceased in order to continue his family line ( Deuteronomy 25: 5 – 10 ).
The old custom of the levirate marriage () is thus modified in the Deuteronomic code, by permitting the surviving brother to refuse to marry his brother's widow, provided he submits to the ceremony of Halizah ( see Levirate ; Yebamah ).
When Huhanye died in 31 BC, Wang Zhaojun requested to return to China. Emperor Cheng, however, ordered that she follow Xiongnu levirate custom and become the wife of the next shanyu, the oldest brother ( or her stepson, born by her husband's first wife ) of her husband.
The levirate custom survived in the society of Northeastern Caucasus Huns until the 7th century CE.
After his death in 609 A. D., Princess Yicheng, in accordance with the Göktürk custom of levirate marriage, remarried to Yami Qaghan's successor and son ( by another wife ), Shibi Qaghan.
The Samaritans followed a slightly different course, which may indicate an earlier custom among the Hebrews ; the former practiced the levirate only when the woman was betrothed and the marriage had not been consummated.

levirate and was
According to the Gemara, they demonstrated their wisdom by raising their case in a timely fashion, just as Moses was expounding the law of levirate marriage, or yibbum, and they argued for their inheritance by analogy to that law.
Centuries later, in the days of Moses, this practice was formulated into a law of a levirate marriage, where the brother of the deceased would provide offspring to the childless widow to preserve the family line.
Scholars have argued that the secondary purpose of the narrative about Onan and Tamar, of which the description of Onan is a part, was to either assert the institution of levirate marriage, or present an aetiological myth for its origin ; Onan's role in the narrative is, thus, as the brother abusing his obligations by agreeing to sexual intercourse with his dead brother's wife, but refusing to allow her to become pregnant as a result.
It is believed, but not historically verified, that Bumbutai married Dorgon after Hong Taiji's death, since levirate marriage was a common practice among Mongols then.
According to an analysis by Iraj Bashiri of Chingiz Aitmatov's Jamila, levirate marriage was practiced in Kyrgyzstan during the Cold War.
" Certain tribal cultures ... enforced the levirate ... according to which a brother of a deceased husband was obliged to marry his widow.
Khazanov, citing 1968, p. 289-290, mentions that during World War II, the levirate was resurrected in Central Asia.
" Kirghiz ... followed levirate marriage customs, i. e., a widow who had borne at least one child was entitled to a husband from the same lineage as her deceased spouse.
If the widow did not have any male progeny and a levirate was not possible, she would be made to adopt a nephew of her husband.
Among the Zulu, the levirate and ghost marriage ( the vicarious marriage of a woman to the name of a deceased relative ) was common until relatively recently.
By Talmudic times the practice of levirate marriage was deemed secondary in preference to halizah because of the brother's questionable intentions ; indeed, to marry a brother's widow for her beauty was regarded by Abba Saul as equivalent to incest.

levirate and if
A levirate marriage might only occur if a man died childless, in order to continue his family line.

levirate and there
On the first occasion, the topic is about inheritance when there are no male children, while the topic of the second occasion is levirate marriage, and property inheritance remaining within a clan ( not the tribe ).
Prior to the explanation above, the explanation of Sextus Julius Africanus that there had been a levirate marriage and that Joseph's grandfather Mattan ( descendant of Solomon ) had had a wife called " Esther " ( not recorded in the Bible ) with whom he fathered Jacob ( Joseph's father ), but Matthan died and Esther married Heli's father Melchi ( descendant of Nathan ).

levirate and were
Efforts by Henry to appeal to Jewish scholarship concerning the contours of levirate marriage were unavailing as well.
In this case as well, the kin in question would not have been subject to the biblical levirate marriage obligation, as neither Ploni Almoni nor Boaz were brothers of Ruth's late husband.

levirate and economic
The Soviet historian Khazanov gives economic reasons for the longevity of the levirate over two millennia of nomadic history: " inheritance " of a wife as a part of the deceased s property and the need to support and educate children to continue the line of the deceased.

levirate and deceased
The practice of levirate marriage applied to widows of childless deceased husbands, but not to widowers of childless deceased wives.
Boaz married Ruth and, consequently, preserved the name of Elimelech, Naomi's deceased husband, a sort of levirate.
A levirate marriage ( Hebrew: yibbum ) is mandated by of the Hebrew Bible and obliges a brother to marry the widow of his childless deceased brother, with the firstborn child being treated as that of the deceased brother, ( see also ) which renders the child the heir of the deceased brother and not the genetic father.
" The Kirghiz practice levirate whereby the wife of a deceased male is very often married by a younger sibling of the deceased.
The offspring of the levirate union would be seen as a perpetuation of the deceased brother's name.
A related case is that of a woman whose husband has died childless: in such a situation, the husband's brother is required by Jewish law to enter into a levirate marriage with the widow so as to have children with her in the name of the deceased.

levirate and .
Emerton regards the evidence for this to be inconclusive, although classical rabbinical writers argued that this narrative describes the origin of levirate marriage.
This belief is, according to Nahmanides, the basis of the levirate marriage, the child of which inherits not only the name of the brother of his fleshly father, but also his soul, and thus continues its existence on the earth.
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Under the Biblical system of levirate marriage known as Yibbum, Halizah ( or Chalitzah ; ) is the ceremony by which a widow and her husband's brother could avoid the duty to marry after the husband's death.
In theory, however, the Biblical law of levirate marriage is still presumed in force, thus making the childless widow who remarries without performing the halizah ceremony an adulterer.
The Philadelphia Conference ( 1869 ) resolved that " The precept of levirate marriage and of halizah has lost to us all meaning, import, and binding force.
Thus, some commands, such as the prohibition of theft, are near-universal, while others, such as levirate marriage and the holding of slaves, record how to execute specific ancient practices.
5 ) in connection with the levirate marriage he interpreted as " relatives ," etc.
With no heir to the throne, Satyavati asked Bhishma to marry the widows of Vichitravirya ( following the practice of niyoga in its narrower sense, as a levirate marriage ) and rule as king.
All tribes practiced sororate and levirate marriages.
In Korowai society the forms of institutional levirate and predominance of avuncular relationships are found, as well as a kind of affinal avoidance relationships.
# Yebamoth: ( יבמות, " Levirate marriage "); ( or Yebamot or Yevamot ), referring to the mandated marriage of a widow to her brother-in-law, deals with the Jewish law of levirate marriage () and other topics, such as the status of minors.
* Yevamot is first because unlike the others, it is largely concerned with a compulsory commandment ( levirate marriage ) as opposed to a voluntary one.

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