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But Naomi said, "Return, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that athey may be your husbands?
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Genesis 38:11, Deuteronomy 25:5
Genesis 38
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Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "aRemain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up"; for he thought, "I am afraid that he too may die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
Deuteronomy 25
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"When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. aHer husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.