Deuteronomy 25:5-7

Good News Translation

Duty to a Dead Brother

^5 (A)“If two brothers live on the same property and one of them dies, leaving no son, then his widow is not to be married to someone outside the family; it is the duty of the dead man's brother to marry her. ⁶ The first son that they have will be considered the son of the dead man, so that his family line will continue in Israel. ^7 (B)But if the dead man's brother does not want to marry her, she is to go before the town leaders and say, ‘My husband's brother will not do his duty; he refuses to give his brother a descendant among the people of Israel.’