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“You are not to muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

“If brothers live together, and one of them dies childless, his widow is not to marry someone unrelated to him; her husband’s brother is to go to her and perform the duty of a brother-in-law by marrying her. The first child she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be eliminated from Isra’el.

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Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.(A)

If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.(B) The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.(C)

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