Ruth 4:10

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In addition, I have bought as my wife the Moabite Ruth, Mahlon’s widow, to keep the inheritance in the dead man’s name. In this way the dead man’s name will not be cut off from his relatives or from the public records. Today you are witnesses.”

Cross References

Genesis 29:27

Finish the week of wedding festivities with this daughter. Then we will give you the other one too. But you’ll have to work for me another seven years.”

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the descendant wouldn’t belong to him, so whenever he slept with his brother’s widow, he wasted his semen on the ground to avoid giving his brother a descendant.

Psalm 109:15

Let their guilt and sin always remain on record in front of the Lord. Let the Lord remove every memory of him  from the earth,

Psalm 34:16

The Lord confronts those who do evil in order to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

Proverbs 18:22

Whoever finds a wife finds something good and has obtained favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

Home and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a sensible wife comes from the Lord.

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants would be like sand. Your children would be like its grains. Their names would not be cut off or wiped out in my presence.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the country of Syria. Israel worked to get a wife; he took care of sheep to pay for her.

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her for 23 ounces of silver and 10 bushels of barley.

Zechariah 13:2

“On that day,” declares the Lord of Armies, “I will wipe away the names of the idols from the land. They will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the ⌞false⌟ prophets and the unclean  spirit from the land.

Malachi 2:14

But you ask, “Why ⌞aren’t our offerings accepted⌟?” It is because the Lord is a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been unfaithful. Yet, she is your companion, the wife of your marriage vows.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.

Deuteronomy 25:6

Then the first son she has will carry the dead brother’s name so that his name won’t die out in Israel.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable in every way, so husbands and wives should be faithful to each other. God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.

Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and everyone who lives in the land hears about it, they will surround us and remove every memory of us from the earth. What will you do then so that your great name ⌞will be remembered⌟?”

Ruth 4:9

Then Boaz said to the leaders and to all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon.