Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
Ruth 4:5 - Y'all Version Bible Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from the hand of Naomi, you must acquire Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his property.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then Boaz said, The day you buy the field of Naomi, you must buy also Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the dead man, to restore the name of the dead to his inheritance. American Standard Version (1901) Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance. Common English Bible Then Boaz said, “On the day when you buy the field from Naomi, you also buy Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the dead man, in order to preserve the dead man’s name for his inheritance.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Boaz said to him, "When buying the field, you are likewise obliged to accept the hand of the woman Ruth, the Moabite, who was the wife of the deceased, so that you may raise up the name of your near kinsman through his posterity." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Booz said to him: When thou shalt buy the field at the woman's hand, thou must take also Ruth the Moabitess, who was the wife of the deceased: to raise up the name of thy kinsman in his inheritance. |
Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
They said, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without having any children, his brother must marry the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’
saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies with a wife but no children, his brother should marry the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife is to go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”