Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth[a] the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order (A)to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 4:5 Masoretic Text you also buy it from Ruth

24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, (A)‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’

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Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage

(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. 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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Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to (A)your brother's wife and (B)perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

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28 and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us (A)that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man[a] must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 20:28 Greek his brother

12 And now it is true that I am (A)a redeemer. Yet there is a redeemer nearer than I. 13 Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will (B)redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, (C)as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.”

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