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Why does Vayikra 21,2 call a wife "she'ero hakrova aluv" (his relative that's close to him) and not just simply write "ishto" (his wife)? Also how could it mean wife, because between all the other relatives it writes "and" but between this and mother it doesn't which would imply that its the introduction to the list of relatives, not one of them?