Deuteronomy 25:5

brethren of the same mother. In the Sg. passages, as we have seen, brotheris fellow-Israelite.

dwell together On the same estate (cp. Genesis 13:6; Genesis 36:7); this limitation is striking.

son LXX seed, followed by Jos. IV. Antt.viii. 23, and in Matthew 22:24; Mark 12:19; Luke 20:28 has children. So Vulg. and most moderns, A.V. child. But the LXX and the quotations in the gospels are evidently under the influence of the later law of P which allowed inheritance by daughters. See introd. note. Son, R.V., is the proper rendering.

without unto a stranger Outside the family. Stranger, -ish zar, is a man of another family. Cp. Proverbs 5:10; Hosea 5:7; Leviticus 22:12.

husband's brother … perform the duty of an husband's brother Heb. yabam, and the demon. verb therefrom, yibbem, to act as a husband's brother.