RE: When a man dies, his brother had the duty to take his brother’s wife into his household and if the brother was childless, raise up children for the brother.
Hmmm... does that mean that Hunter Biden was only following the Bible?
There were no government social services at that time and widows would have been beggers otherwise. The corollary today would be to help the widowed sister-in-law to make a mortgage payment or other financial support