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Ibum

IBUM. The Rabbins give this name to the ceremony of a brother’s marrying his sister-in-law, the widow of his brother deceased without children, by virtue of the Mosaick Law mentioned in Deut. xxv.

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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Ibum,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/i/ibum/.

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