The object of the book has been supposed by some to be to commend the so-called levirate marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

As for the levirate, that is another very wide-spread custom which shows an utter disregard of woman's preference and choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

This is referred to as a levirate marriage, and it's still in healthy practice today (see HBO's Deadwood, again, not exactly the same thing).    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Cheshire: Part II: The Good, The Bad, and Bumping Uglies -- Some Thoughts on Masturbation and The Good Book] Reference

The story of Judah and Tamar is another example of the levirate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Onanism] Reference

Now, levirate marriage, clearly heterosexual, seems wierd to modern folk!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The anti-marriage-equality bait-and-switch] Reference

Moses was sitting and expounding the laws of yibum (levirate marriage) set forth in Deut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daughters of Zelophehad: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference

Judah has now performed the levirate (despite himself) and never cohabits with Tamar again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tamar: Bible.] Reference

By the laws of levirate marriage, Onan was obliged to take Er's wife Tamar as his own and impregnate her.    From Wordnik.com.  [But Onan knew that the seed would not be his . . .] Reference

I was waiting for “different historical definitions of heterosexual marriage” - levirate marriage, for instance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The anti-marriage-equality bait-and-switch] Reference

In certain situations, the woman even had the right to refuse levirate marriage while retaining her financial rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halakhic Decisions on Family Matters in Medieval Jewish Society.] Reference

According to halakhah, a woman whose husband died childless was required to undergo yibbum (levirate marriage) or halizah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halakhic Decisions on Family Matters in Medieval Jewish Society.] Reference

Usually the halizah ceremony was performed, releasing the widow from the levirate tie and freeing her to marry someone else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kurdish Women.] Reference

A woman may legally refuse levirate marriage only for reasons of physical defects in the man (MT Yibbum and Halizah 2: 9,14).    From Wordnik.com.  [Maimonides.] Reference

Maimonides views levirate marriage as a requirement which takes precedent over the option of halizah (Responsa 2: 218, 2: 373).    From Wordnik.com.  [Maimonides.] Reference

Another example of the social tensions produced by the ambivalent mandate provided by tradition and custom is the levirate union.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italy, Early Modern.] Reference

A woman who refused levirate marriage with no weighty reason to support her refusal was considered rebellious and lost her economic rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rashi.] Reference

The ailonit is exempt from both levirate marriage and released from it (halizah) (Mishnah Niddah 5: 9; Sefer ha-Bagrut 3: lines 75 – 80).    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal-Religious Status of the Female According to Age.] Reference

These women, however, were yevamot and therefore each wanted the child in order to be freed of the obligation of yibum (levirate marriage).    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Prostitutes as Mothers: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference

We should see the ruling in a broader perspective: the sources document how hard life was for women in Ashkenaz who were subject to levirate marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rashi.] Reference

Ashkenazim tended to follow the practice of halizah, but the Sephardim continued to follow the custom of the levirate marriage in their countries of origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Jewish Women.] Reference

During the Middle Ages, and especially until the twelfth century, various communities tended to promote levirate marriage, though they chose halizah in many cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halakhic Decisions on Family Matters in Medieval Jewish Society.] Reference

Whatever her reason, if the woman refuses to enter into a levirate marriage the brother-in-law is compelled to release her and pay her the amount of her marriage settlement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rashi.] Reference

But two levirate marriages will explain the difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

By the "levirate law" the duty devolved on him of marrying Ruth the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Manu, side by side with the above-mentioned custom of levirate proper.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay] Reference

Yivum The levirate Marriage vs. the default prohibition of one's brothers wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [DovBear] Reference

The story of Ruth is not, therefore, an exact example of the custom of levirate.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay] Reference

Mosaic code relating to levirate marriages; but it was a most improbable instance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern] Reference

Do you personally know any couples which began their marriage as a levirate marriage?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

The Mosaic code had consecrated this patriarchal theory by a strange institution, the levirate law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Jesus] Reference

The levirate prevails, or has prevailed, among a great number of races, from the lowest to those considerably advanced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

Among these customs are infant marriage, infant betrothal, capture, purchase, marrying whole families of sisters, and the levirate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

(M37) Among the Israelites, the levirate was in full force; the craving for continuance was the same as among the followers of Manu and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay] Reference