Ruth 4:10

New American Standard Bible 2020

Furthermore, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be eliminated from his brothers or from the court of his birth place; you are witnesses today.”

Cross References

Genesis 29:27

Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me, for another seven years.”

Genesis 38:9

Now Onan knew that the child would not be his; so when he had relations with his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground so that he would not give a child to his brother.

Psalm 109:15

May they be before the Lord continually, So that He may eliminate their memory from the earth;

Psalm 34:16

The face of the Lord is against evildoers, To eliminate the memory of them from the earth.

Proverbs 18:22

He who finds a wife finds a good thing And obtains favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Isaiah 48:19

“Your descendants would have been like the sand, And your offspring like its grains; Their name would never be eliminated or destroyed from My presence.”

Hosea 12:12

¶Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram, And Israel worked for a wife, And for a wife he kept sheep.

Hosea 3:2

So I purchased her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and a homer and a lethech of barley.

Zechariah 13:2

“And it will come about on that day,” declares the Lord of armies, “that I will eliminate the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

Malachi 2:14

Yet you say, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your marriage companion and your wife by covenant.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

Deuteronomy 25:6

It shall then be that the firstborn to whom she gives birth shall assume the name of his father’s deceased brother, so that his name will not be wiped out from Israel.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Joshua 7:9

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear about it, and they will surround us and eliminate our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?”

Ruth 4:9

Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon.