The Antiquities of the Jews, 8.5

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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5but he desired her to be a means of obtaining a favor from his brother to him, and to persuade him to bestow on him in marriage Abishag, who had indeed slept by his father, but, because his father was too old, he did not lie with her, and she was still a virgin.

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