¹⁰ Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance, ^(A)that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from ^[a]his position at the gate. You are witnesses this day.”

⁶ And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears ^(A)will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that ^(B)his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

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

^4 (A)Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; ^(B)but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

² “It shall be in that day,” says the Lord of hosts, “that I will ^(A)cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered. I will also cause ^(B)the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.

² So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley.

² And I will take for Myself faithful witnesses to record, ^(A)Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”

³ Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Call his name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz;