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saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’
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Verse 24. Raise up issue to his brother, to be heirs of his name and of his effects, as we read in Ruth, chapter 4, verse 10: suscitare nomen defuncti, and so forth to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance, lest his name be cut off from among his family, and his brethren, and his people. A.
or, seed
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