Ruth 4:10

New International Version

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”

Cross References

Genesis 29:27

Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.”

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.

Psalm 109:15

May their sins always remain before the Lord, that he may blot out their name from the earth.

Psalm 34:16

but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth.

Proverbs 18:22

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

Proverbs 19:14

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

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be blotted out nor destroyed from before me.”

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the country of Aram; Israel served to get a wife, and to pay for her he tended sheep.

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley.

Zechariah 13:2

“On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more,” declares the Lord Almighty. “I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why?” It is because the Lord is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.

Ephesians 5:25

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

Deuteronomy 25:6

The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

Joshua 7:9

The Canaanites and the other people of the country will hear about this and they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. What then will you do for your own great name?”

Ruth 4:9

Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.