21 And where a man takes his brother’s wife, it is something abhorrent.+ It is the nakedness of his brother that he has laid bare. They should become* childless.

5 “In case brothers dwell together and one of them has died without his having a son, the wife of the dead one should not become a strange man’s outside. Her brother-in-law should go to her, and he must take her as his wife and perform brother-in-law marriage with her.*+

17 For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John and bound him in prison on account of He·roʹdi·as the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.+

19 “Teacher, Moses wrote us that if someone’s brother dies and leaves a wife behind but does not leave a child, his brother+ should take the wife and raise up offspring from her for his brother.+