Ruth 4:10

American Standard Version (1901)

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:6

And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Malachi 2:14

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Zechariah 13:2

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

Hosea 12:12

And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

Isaiah 48:19

thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Proverbs 18:22

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Psalm 34:16

The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Joshua 7:9

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do for thy great name?

Genesis 29:27

Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

Ruth 4:9

And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, of the hand of Naomi.

Genesis 38:9

And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.