It is absurd and strange that people reduce traditional practices abounding with wisdom to mere rules, thereby doing disservice to all the ancestral wisdom handed down through generations. The practice of Levirate marriage was probably instituted to protect women and ensure that there is the next generation of people to take care of their elders and also to ensure enough hands to work at home, like most peasant communities. This is evident even in contemporary situations where people depend on agriculture for their livelihood.

Those who question Jesus in order to trap him are the pseudo-literate and those who are cut off from physical labour. They are those who have acquired information but not assimilated it. Thus they cannot understand the wisdom behind Jesus' teachings. For Jesus, His quest was not knowledge but to do the Will of God.