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(A)You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing.

“If brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, then the wife of the one who died shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. (B)Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. And it will be that the firstborn whom she bears shall [a]assume the name of his dead brother, so that (C)his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

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  1. Deuteronomy 25:6 Lit stand on

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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