If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
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And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahYour fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
Exodus
LawUnleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
Acts
HistoryThen Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
Matthew
GospelsThen the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
Joshua
History / JoshuaIn the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
Judges
History / SamuelYea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Acts
History / LukeWhile he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
Matthew
GospelsAre thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
Job
WisdomThen the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Judges
HistoryAnd he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.