Deuteronomy 25:5

Modern English Version

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies without having had a child, the wife of the deceased may not marry outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother must go to her and take her to himself as a 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 no man on the earth to have relations with us after the manner of all the earth.

Matthew 22:24

“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry his wife and raise up children for his brother.’

Mark 12:19

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves his wife behind, but leaves no children, that man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother.

Luke 20:28

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, then this man should take the wife and raise up children for his brother.

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there sons in my womb, who could become your husbands?

Ruth 3:13

Stay here tonight, and in the morning if he wants to redeem you, very well. Let him do so. Yet if he does not want to redeem you, then I will redeem you. I will, as the Lord lives! Sleep here until morning.”

Ruth 3:2

Now is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you have been working? Tonight he winnows barley on the threshing floor.

Ruth 3:9

He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your maidservant. Spread your cloak over me, for you are a redeeming kinsman.”

Ruth 4:5

Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the deceased, to perpetuate the name of the deceased through his inheritance.”