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.”

⁶ And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that ^(A)his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

^25 (A)Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and ^(B)gave himself up for her,

^4 (A)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge ^(B)the sexually immoral and adulterous.

^14 (A)But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord ^(B)was witness between you and the wife of your youth, ^(C)to whom ^(D)you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Idolatry Cut Off

² “And ^(A)on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, ^(B)I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that ^(C)they shall be remembered no more. And also ^(D)I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.

² So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a ^(A)homer and a lethech^[a] of barley.

² And ^(A)I will get reliable witnesses, ^(B)Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.”