Trivia Item


Not sure why IMDB wouldn't let me contribute this trivia item, so I am posting it here instead:

When Henry VII is talking to Thomas More, he justified his divorce of Queen Catherine by quoting Leviticus 18:16, "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife." More responds by saying "Yes, Your Grace. But Deuteronomy" only to be cut off. More was probably going to cite Deuteronomy 25:5, which says a man must marry his brother's widow if the couple was childless. As it reads, "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."

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