25:5-10 The Levirate law, by which a man would marry his brother's widow if his brother were to die without a son, was meant to keep bloodlines and inheritance within the family. The first son born of the second brother's union with the woman would be considered the child of the deceased brother and would receive his inheritance. It was from this perspective that the Sadducees posed the question to Christ regarding seven brothers who each married the same woman and left her childless (cf. Mt 22:23-33).
