If a man take his brother's wife— Except that brother die childless. Compare Genesis 38:8. Deuteronomy 25:5-6.
REFLECTIONS.—Nothing needs severer restraints than the lusts which naturally reign in our mortal bodies: no sins have severer punishments denounced on their indulgence. To instance only one—The adulterer and adulterers were both to perish together. The wrong is irreparable to the injured, peace of conscience destroyed to the guilty, and the avenging wrath of God provoked by such a daring violation of his ordinance of marriage.