Master, Moses wrote to us, If a man’s brother dies, and leaves his wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up descendents for his brother.
For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for he had married her.
If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.