(A)“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage

(B)“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her (C)husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that (D)his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

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