Deuteronomy 25:6

New International Reader's Version

Her first baby boy will be named after her first husband. Then the dead man’s name will continue in Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 38:8

Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. After all, you are her brother-in-law. So carry out your duty to her. Provide children for your brother.”

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the children wouldn’t belong to him. So every time he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground. He did it so he wouldn’t provide children for his brother.

Psalm 109:13

May their family line come to an end. May their names be forgotten by those who live after them.

Psalm 9:5

You have punished the nations. You have destroyed evil people. You have erased their names from your book for ever and ever.

Deuteronomy 21:19

Then his parents will take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will never be willing to forgive those people. His great anger will blaze out against them. All the curses I’ve written down in this book will fall on them. And the Lord will erase any mention of them from the earth.

Deuteronomy 9:14

Do not try to stop me. I am going to destroy them. I will wipe them out from the earth. Then I will make you into a great nation. Your people will be stronger than they were. There will be more of you than there were of them.”