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Ulangan 25:6

Maka anak sulung yang nanti dilahirkan perempuan itu haruslah dianggap sebagai anak saudara yang sudah mati itu, supaya nama itu jangan terhapus dari antara orang Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Brother;   Inheritance;   Marriage;   Widow;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - First Born, the;   Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Barrenness;   Gate;   Marriage;   Widow;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Inheritance;   Name;   Punishment;   Widow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Duty;   Immorality, Sexual;   Wealth;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Levirate Law;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   Brother;   Heir;   Shealtiel;   Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adoption;   Avenger;   Court Systems;   Family;   Kinsman;   Levirate Law;   Levirate Law, Levirate Marriage;   Resurrection;   Ruth;   Shealtiel;   Spit, Spittle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ancestor-Worship;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Family;   Firstborn;   Inheritance;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Levirate Law ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Spitting;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gate;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heir;   Husband's Brother;   Law in the Old Testament;   Name;   Relationships, Family;   Saul;   Succeed;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adoption;   Adultery;   Blood-Relationship;   Brother;   Cochin;   Conditions;   Family and Family Life;   ḥaliẓah;   Marriage;   Mishnah;   Nashim;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka anak sulung yang nanti dilahirkan perempuan itu haruslah dianggap sebagai anak saudara yang sudah mati itu, supaya nama itu jangan terhapus dari antara orang Israel.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka hendaklah anak sulung, yang diperanakkannya itu dinamai dengan nama saudaranya yang mati itu, supaya nama saudaranya jangan dihapuskan dari antara Israel.

Contextual Overview

5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them dye, and haue no chylde, the wyfe of the dead shall not marry without vnto a straunger: but his kinsman shall go in vnto her, & take her to wife, and occupie the rowme of his kinsman. 6 And the eldest sonne whiche she beareth, shall succeede in the name of his brother whiche is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man wyll not take his kinswoman, then let her go vp to the gate vnto the elders, and say: My kinsman refuseth to stirre vp vnto his brother a name in Israel, neither wyll he marry me. 8 Then the elders of his citie shall call hym, and commune with hym: and if he stande and say, I wyll not take her: 9 Then shall his kinswoman come vnto hym in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe of his foote, and spit in his face, and aunswere, and say: So shal it be done vnto that man, that doth not buylde vp his brothers house. 10 And his name shalbe called in Israel, the vnshodhouse. 11 If when men striue together one with another, the wife of the one drawe neare for to ryd her husbande out of the handes of hym that smyteth hym, and put foorth her hande and take hym by the secretes: 12 Thou shalt cut of her hande, and let not thyne eye pitie her.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the firstborn: Genesis 28:8-10

that his name: Deuteronomy 9:14, Deuteronomy 29:20, Ruth 4:10-12, Psalms 9:5, Psalms 109:13, brother's wife, or, next kinsman's wife, go up, Deuteronomy 21:19, Ruth 4:1-7

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:9 - General Ruth 3:2 - is not Boaz Ruth 4:5 - to raise up 2 Samuel 14:7 - so they Matthew 14:4 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 16:3
And Sarai Abrams wyfe toke Hagar her mayde the Egyptian, after Abram hadde dwelled ten yeres in the lande of Chanaan, and gaue her to her husbande Abram to be his wyfe.
Genesis 21:14
And so Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng, and tooke bread, and a bottel of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, puttyng it on her shoulder, and the lad also, and sent her away: who departing, wandered vp and downe in the wildernesse of Beer seba.
Genesis 25:1
Abraham proceeded further, and toke hym another wyfe, called Cetura.
Genesis 25:2
Whiche bare hym Zimram, and Iocsan, and Medan, and Midian, and Iesbac, and Suah.
Genesis 25:11
And it came to passe after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his sonne Isahac, and Isahac dwelled by the well of liuing and seeing me.
Genesis 25:13
And these are the names of the sonnes of Ismael, accordyng to the names of their kindred: the eldest sonne of Ismael, Nabaioth, and Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Genesis 25:14
And Misma, and Duma, and Massa, Hadar, and Thema,
Genesis 25:15
Ietur, Naphis, and Cedina.
Genesis 30:4
And she gaue him Bilha her handmayde to wyfe: and Iacob went in vnto her.
Genesis 30:9
When Lea sawe that she had left bearyng chyldren she toke Zilpha her mayde, and gaue her Iacob to wyfe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall be [that] the firstborn that she beareth,.... To her husband's brother, now married to her:

shall succeed in the name of his brother [which is] dead; the meaning is, as the Targum of Jonathan,

"he shall rise up in the inheritance in the name of his brother;''

or, as Jarchi expresses it,

"he shall take the inheritance of the deceased in the goods of his father;''

that is, he shall have his part and share in the inheritance that the deceased brother would have had if he had lived, which would come to him by his father:

that his name be not put out of Israel; that the family be not lost in Israel, and the inheritance belonging to it pass to another. This law was designed to keep families distinct, and inheritances in them, until the Messiah came, and that it might appear from what family he came; as he did from one in whom, as it is generally thought, this law took place: and it might have still a more special respect to him, as Ainsworth suggests; for Christ in the mystical sense may be signified by the deceased brother; he stands in the relation of a brother to his people, and has all the love, friendship, compassion, and condescension of one; he and they are of one and the same father, of the same family, and of the same nature, and have the same inheritance they being co-heirs with him; nor is he ashamed to own the relation. This brother of theirs is deceased; his death was according to the will of God, what he himself agreed to, and was foretold by the prophets; for which purpose he came into the world, and did die as to the flesh, and that for the sins of his people. Now the Jewish church was his wife, by whom he had no children through the law; that church was espoused to him, he stood in the relation of an husband to her, and she in the relation of a wife to him. Very few children were brought forth by her to him, see, Isaiah 54:1; and none by the law, by which there is no regeneration, but by the Gospel; it is through that, and not the law, the Spirit and his graces come; or souls are born again to Christ, renewed and sanctified. The apostles that survived Christ, and the ministers of the Gospel, are his brethren, John 20:17; and who are instruments in begetting souls to Christ; and these are a seed raised up unto him, and are called not after the name of the apostles and ministers of the word, through whose ministry they are begotten, 1 Corinthians 1:12; but after Christ; and have the name of Christians, or anointed ones, from him, and by which means his name is, and will be continued as long as the sun endures, Acts 11:26.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The law of levirate marriage. The law on this subject is not unique to the Jews, but is found (see Genesis 38:8) in all essential respects the same among various Oriental nations, ancient and modern. The rules in these verses, like those upon divorce, do but incorporate existing immemorial usages, and introduce various wise and politic limitations and mitigations of them. The root of the obligation here imposed upon the brother of the deceased husband lies in the primitive idea of childlessness being a great calamity (compare Genesis 16:4; and note), and extinction of name and family one of the greatest that could happen (compare Deuteronomy 9:14; Psalms 109:12-15). To avert this the ordinary rules as to intermarriage are in the case in question (compare Leviticus 18:16) set aside. The obligation was onerous (compare Ruth 4:6), and might be repugnant; and it is accordingly considerably reduced and restricted by Moses. The duty is recognized as one of affection for the memory of the deceased; it is not one which could be enforced at law. That it continued down to the Christian era is apparent from the question on this point put to Jesus by the Sadducees (see the marginal references).

Deuteronomy 25:5

No child - literally, “no son.” The existence of a daughter would clearly suffice. The daughter would inherit the name and property of the father; compare Numbers 27:1-11.

Deuteronomy 25:9

Loose his shoe from off his foot - In token of taking from the unwilling brother all right over the wife and property of the deceased. Planting the foot on a thing was an usual symbol of lordship and of taking possession (compare Genesis 13:17; Joshua 10:24), and loosing the shoe and handing it to another in like manner signified a renunciation and transfer of right and title (compare Ruth 4:7-8; Psalms 60:8, and Psalms 108:9). The widow here is directed herself, as the party slighted and injured, to deprive her brother-law of his shoe, and spit in his face (compare Numbers 12:14). The action was intended to aggravate the disgrace conceived to attach to the conduct of the man.

Deuteronomy 25:10

The house ... - Equivalent to “the house of the barefooted one.” To go barefoot was a sign of the most abject condition; compare 2 Samuel 15:30.


 
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