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“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.
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Verse 16. Brother; though she may be even divorced from him. Saint Augustine q. 61. If the brother were dead without offspring, the next relation was bound to marry her; (Deuteronomy 25:5) and the kinsman of Booz was accounted infamous for neglecting this duty. Ruth 4:6.
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