Marriage with a deceased wife's sister / Leviticus XVIII. 18, considered in connection with the Law of the Levirate

by Mayow Wynell Mayow

A Table of kindred and affinity, wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and our laws to marry together.—Book of Common Prayer.

[14] Letter, p. 55.

[15] St. Matt. xxii. 24.

[16] It may be useful just to state that the law termed the law of the Levirate is that law laid down in Deut. xxv. 5–10, that in case a Jew dying childless, his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.

[18] Letter to Rev. W. H. Lyall, p. 14.

[20] Letter to Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood, p. 29–31.

[21] Appendix B.

[23] Lev. xviii., 20–30.

[24] See Dr. Pusey’s Evidence before the Royal Commission, First Report, p. 37, questions 431–3.

[30] It is, moreover, evident that something of the kind of the law of the Levirate was a usage of the Patriarchal times, from the history recorded as to the sons of Judah in the book of Genesis.