¹⁰ And with the land I have acquired Ruth, the Moabite widow of Mahlon, to be my wife. This way she can have a son to carry on the family name of her dead husband and to inherit the family property here in his hometown. You are all witnesses today.”

⁶ The first son she bears to him will be considered the son of the dead brother, so that his name will not be forgotten in Israel.

²⁵ For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her

⁴ Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

¹⁴ You cry out, “Why doesn’t the Lord accept my worship?” I’ll tell you why! Because the Lord witnessed the vows you and your wife made when you were young. But you have been unfaithful to her, though she remained your faithful partner, the wife of your marriage vows.

² “And on that day,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will erase idol worship throughout the land, so that even the names of the idols will be forgotten. I will remove from the land both the false prophets and the spirit of impurity that came with them.

² So I bought her back for fifteen pieces of silver^[a] and five bushels of barley and a measure of wine.^[b]

² I asked Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah, both known as honest men, to witness my doing this.

³ Then I slept with my wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. And the Lord said, “Call him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.