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Mat_22:24 ff. A free citation of the law respecting levirate marriage, Deu_25:5, and that without following the Septuagint, which in this instance does not render éÄáÌÅí by the characteristic ἐπυγαμβρ . If a married man died without male issue, his brother was required to marry the widow, and to register the first-born son of the marriage as the son of the deceased husband. See Saalschütz, M. R. p. 754 ff.; Ewald, Alterth. p. 276 ff.; Benary, de Hebraeor. leviratu, Berl. 1835. As to other Oriental nations, see Rosenmüller, Morgenl. V. p. 81; Bodenstedt, d. Völker des Kaukasus, p. 82; Benary, p. 31 ff.
ἐπιγαμβρεύειν , to marry as brother-in-law (levir. éáí ). Comp. Gen_38:8; Test. XII. patr. p. 599. Differently ἐπιγαμβρ . τινι in 1Ma_10:54; 1Sa_18:22.
ἕως τῶν ἑπτά ] until the seven, i.e. and in the same manner they continued to die until the whole seven were dead. Comp. Mat_18:22; 1Ma_2:38.
ὕστερον πάντων ] later than all the husbands.