Ruth 4:10

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

You are also witnesses that I have agreed to marry Mahlon's widow Ruth, the Moabite woman. This will keep the property in his family's name, and he will be remembered in this town.

Cross References

Ephesians 5:25

A husband should love his wife as much as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.

Hebrews 13:4

Have respect for marriage. Always be faithful to your partner, because God will punish anyone who is immoral or unfaithful in marriage.

Malachi 2:14

And why isn't God pleased? It's because he knows that each of you men has been unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young. You promised that she would be your partner, but now you have broken that promise.

Zechariah 13:2

The Lord All-Powerful says: When that time comes, I will get rid of every idol in the country, and they will be forgotten forever. I will also do away with their prophets and those evil spirits that control them.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob escaped to Syria where he tended sheep to earn himself a wife.

Hosea 3:2

So I paid 15 pieces of silver and about 150 kilograms of grain for such a woman.

Isaiah 48:19

Your nation would be blessed with more people than there are grains of sand along the seashore. And I would never have let your country be destroyed.

Proverbs 19:14

You may inherit all you own from your parents, but a sensible wife is a gift from the Lord.

Proverbs 18:22

A man's greatest treasure is his wife— she is a gift from the Lord.

Psalm 109:15

Don't let the Lord forget the sins of his family, or let anyone remember his family ever lived.

Psalm 34:16

But God despises evil people, and he will wipe them all from the earth, till they are forgotten.

Joshua 7:9

Everyone will think you weren't strong enough to protect your people. Now the Canaanites and everyone else who lives in the land will surround us and wipe us out.

Genesis 29:27

After you spend this week with Leah, you may also marry Rachel. But you will have to work for me another seven years.”

Ruth 4:9

Boaz told the town leaders and everyone else: All of you are witnesses that today I have bought from Naomi the property that belonged to Elimelech and his two sons, Chilion and Mahlon.

Genesis 38:9

Onan knew the child would not be his, and when he had sex with Tamar, he made sure that she would not get pregnant.