Ruth 4:10 English Standard Version
10 Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, (A)to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”
Read full chapterRuth 3:13 English Standard Version
13 Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will (A)redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, (B)as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.”
Read full chapterDeuteronomy 25:5-6 English Standard Version
Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage
5 (A)“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her (B)husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 6 And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that (C)his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
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