Deuteronomy 25:5

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

When brethren dwell together, and one of them is dead without free children, the wife of the dead brother shall not be wedded to another man, but his brother shall take her, and he shall raise the seed of his brother.

Cross References

Genesis 19:31

And the more daughter said to the less, Our father is eld [or old], and no man is left on earth that may enter [in] to us, by the custom of all earth;

Matthew 22:24

and said, Master, Moses said, if any man is dead, not having a son, that his brother wed his wife, and raise seed to his brother.

Mark 12:19

Master, Moses wrote to us, that if the brother of a man were dead, and left his wife, and have no sons, his brother take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

Luke 20:28

and said, Master, Moses wrote to us, if the brother of any man have a wife, and he be dead [or died], and he was without heirs [or free children], that his brother take his wife, and raise seed to his brother.

Ruth 1:11

To whom she answered, My daughters, turn ye again, why come ye with me? I have no more sons in my womb, that ye may hope husbands of me;

Ruth 3:13

rest thou here this night, and when the morrowtide is made, if the man will hold thee to wife by right of nigh kin, the thing is well done; and if he will not, I shall take thee without any doubt, the Lord liveth; sleep thou till the morrowtide.

Ruth 3:2

This Boaz, to whose damsels thou were joined in the field, is our kinsman, and in this night he winnoweth the cornfloor or threshing floor of barley.

Ruth 3:9

and he said to her, Who art thou? She answered, I am Ruth, thine handmaid; stretch forth thy cloth on thy servantess, for thou art nigh of kin.

Ruth 4:5

To whom Boaz said, When thou hast bought the field of the hand of the woman, thou owest also to take to wife Ruth of Moab, that was the wife of the dead man, that thou raise the name of thy kinsman in his heritage.