Deuteronomy 25:5

Lighthouse Bible 2006

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:31

And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:

Matthew 22:24

Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up descendents for his brother.

Mark 12:19

Master, Moses wrote to us, If a man’s brother dies, and leaves his wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up descendents for his brother.

Luke 20:28

Saying, Master, Moses wrote to us, If any man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up descendents for his brother.

Ruth 1:11

And Naomi said, Turn back, my daughters: why will you go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

Ruth 3:13

Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform for 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 3:2

And now is not Boaz of our kindred, whose maidens you were with? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

Ruth 3:9

And he said, Who are you? And she answered, I am Ruth your handmaid: spread therefore the edge of your mantle over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.

Ruth 4:5

Then said Boaz, The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.