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Never muzzle an ox when it’s threshing[a] grain.

When brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother must marry her and sleep with her. He must do his duty as her brother-in-law. Then the first son she has will carry the dead brother’s name so that his name won’t die out in Israel.

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  1. Deuteronomy 25:4 Threshing is the process of beating stalks to separate them from the grain.

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