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Can A Man Marry His Brother's Widow?

Deuteronomy 25:5  If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. (KJV)

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Leviticus 20:21  And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. (KJV)

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The Leviticus passage speaks of sleeping with your brother's wife, not his widow.  Not a contradiction.

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