Deuteronomy 25:5

The English Standar Version

"If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

Cross References

Genesis 19:31

And the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

Matthew 22:24

saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.'

Mark 12:19

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man[5] must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.

Luke 20:28

and they asked him a question, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man[6] must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi said, "Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?

Ruth 3:13

Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the LORD lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning."

Ruth 3:2

Is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.

Ruth 3:9

He said, "Who are you?" And she answered, "I am Ruth, your servant. Spread your wings[1] over your servant, for you are a redeemer."

Ruth 4:5

Then Boaz said, "The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth[2] the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance."