Ruth 4:10

New King James Version

Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from his position at the gate. You are witnesses this day.”

Cross References

Genesis 29:27

Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you will serve with me still another seven years.”

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the heir would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give an heir to his brother.

Psalm 109:15

Let them be continually before the Lord, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Psalm 34:16

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance 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

Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants also would have been like the sand, And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand; His name would not have been cut off Nor destroyed from before Me.”

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel served for a spouse, And for a wife he tended sheep.

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley.

Zechariah 13:2

“It shall be in that day,” says the Lord of hosts, “that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered. I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.

Malachi 2:14

Yet you say, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been witness Between you and the wife of your youth, With whom you have dealt treacherously; Yet she is your companion And your wife by covenant.

Ephesians 5:25

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

Deuteronomy 25:6

And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Joshua 7:9

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

Ruth 4:9

And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.