Deuteronomy 25:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

Cross References

Genesis 19:31

And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:

Matthew 22:24

Master, Moses said, If a man, at the time of his death, has no children, let his brother take his wife, and get a family for his brother;

Mark 12:19

Master, in the law Moses says, If a man's brother comes to his end, and has a wife still living and no child, it is right for his brother to take his wife, and get a family for his brother.

Luke 20:28

Master, Moses said that if a man's brother comes to his end, having a wife, but no children, his brother is to take the wife, and get a family for his brother.

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands?

Ruth 3:13

Take your rest here tonight; and in the morning, if he will do for you what it is right for a relation to do, very well, let him do so: but if he will not, then by the living Lord I myself will do so.

Ruth 3:2

And now, is there not Boaz, our relation, with whose young women you were? See, tonight he is separating the grain from the waste in his grain-floor.

Ruth 3:9

And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation.

Ruth 4:5

Then Boaz said, On the day when you take this field, you will have to take with it Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, so that you may keep the name of the dead living in his heritage.