Ruth 4:10

New English Translation

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, as my wife to raise up a descendant who will inherit his property so the name of the deceased might not disappear from among his relatives and from his village. You are witnesses today.”

Cross References

Genesis 29:27

Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the child would not be considered his. So whenever he had sexual relations with his brother’s wife, he withdrew prematurely so as not to give his brother a descendant.

Psalm 109:15

May the Lord be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!

Psalm 34:16

But the Lord opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.

Proverbs 18:22

The one who finds a wife finds what is enjoyable, and receives a pleasurable gift from the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

A house and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

Hosea 3:2

So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley to purchase her.

Zechariah 13:2

And also on that day,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

Malachi 2:14

Yet you ask, “Why?” The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

Deuteronomy 25:6

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?”

Ruth 4:9

Then Boaz said to the leaders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I have acquired from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Kilion, and Mahlon.