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Episode 154 (Numbers 35:1-36:13)

40 Minutes In The Old Testament

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The Intention of the Wife

There were circumstances that where it was in the state of necessity, obviously in this in this state, but that's not a thing now. The intent was first of all to make sure that the widow was taken care of because there was, as we've mentioned, many times there was no social safety net back then. So she's the number one person is being taken care of. But then the second person is the deceased brother because he has inheritance. He has his own family that is that they want to perpetuate. And so his would have a son, even though he himself was deceased because the son that was born to his widow and to his brother within the legally considered to be his own

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