Ruth 4:6

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

The near kinsman said, I can't redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance: take my right of redemption on you; for I can't redeem it.

Cross References

Genesis 38:8

Yehudah said to Onan, *Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.*

Leviticus 25:25

*'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

Deuteronomy 25:7

If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Yisra'el; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

Deuteronomy 25:8

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;

Deuteronomy 25:9

then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.

Ruth 2:20

Na`omi 1 said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. Na`omi 1 said to her, The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.

Ruth 3:13

Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform to you the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to you, then will I do the part of a kinsman to you, as the LORD lives: lie down until the morning.

Ruth 3:9

He said, Who are you? She answered, I am Rut your handmaid: spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.