Ruth 4:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to perpetuate the deceased man’s name on his property, so that his name will not disappear among his relatives or from the gate of his home town. You are witnesses today.’

Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:6

The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives,  just as Christ loved  the church and gave himself  for her

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honoured by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Malachi 2:14

And you ask, ‘Why? ’ Because even though the Lord has been a witness  between you and the wife of your youth,  you have acted treacherously against her. She was your marriage partner  and your wife by covenant.

Zechariah 13:2

On that day’ #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies #– #‘I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered.  I will banish the prophets  and the unclean spirit from the land.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the territory of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and 330 litres of barley.  ,,

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains; their name would not be cut off or eliminated from my presence.

Proverbs 19:14

A house and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the  Lord.

Proverbs 18:22

A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favour from the  Lord.

Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth.  Then what will you do about your great name? ’

Genesis 29:27

Complete this week of wedding celebration, and we will also give you this younger one in return for working yet another seven years for me.’

Ruth 4:9

Boaz said to the elders and all the people, ‘You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi everything that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he released his semen on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.