Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at your father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Perhaps he will die also, as his brothers did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
And they sent out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, neither do you care for any man: for you do not regard the person of men.
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.
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.
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.
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.