Ruth 4:10

New International Reader's Version

I’ve also taken Ruth, who is from Moab, to become my wife. She is Mahlon’s widow. I’ve decided to marry her so the dead man’s name will stay with his property. Now his name won’t disappear from his family line or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”

Cross References

Genesis 29:27

Complete this daughter’s wedding week. Then we’ll give you the younger one also. But you will have to work for another seven years.”

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 109:15

May the Lord never forget their sins. Then he won’t let people remember the names of my enemies anymore.

Psalm 34:16

But the Lord doesn’t look with favor on those who do evil. He removes all memory of them from the earth.

Proverbs 18:22

The one who finds a wife finds what is good. He receives favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

You will receive houses and wealth from your parents. But a wise wife is given by the Lord.

Isaiah 48:19

Your family would be like the sand. Your children after you would be as many as the grains of sand by the sea. It would be impossible to count them. I would always accept the members of your family line. They would never disappear or be destroyed.”

Hosea 12:12

Jacob ran away to the country of Aram. There Israel served Laban to get a wife. He took care of sheep to pay for her.

Hosea 3:2

So I bought Gomer for six ounces of silver and 430 pounds of barley.

Zechariah 13:2

“On that day I will remove the names of other gods from the land. They will not even be remembered anymore,” announces the Lord who rules over all. “I will drive the evil prophets out of the land. I will get rid of the spirit that put lies in their mouths.

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why?” It’s because the Lord is holding you responsible. He watches how you treat the wife you married when you were young. You have been unfaithful to her. You did it even though she’s your partner. You promised to stay married to her. And the Lord was a witness to it.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives. Love them just as Christ loved the church. He gave himself up for her.

Deuteronomy 25:6

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

Hebrews 13:4

All of you should honor marriage. You should keep the marriage bed pure. God will judge the person who commits adultery. He will judge everyone who commits sexual sins.

Joshua 7:9

The Canaanites will hear about it. So will everyone else in the country. They will surround us. They’ll erase any mention of our name from the face of the earth. Then what will you do when people don’t honor your great name anymore?”

Ruth 4:9

Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses. You have seen that I have bought land from Naomi. I have bought all the property that had belonged to Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.