Ruth 4:10

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Summary

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

Have i

Ephesians 5:25

The name

Ye are witnesses

Isaiah 8:2

Malachi 2:14

Hebrews 13:4

Bible References

Have i

Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

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

Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.

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

The name

And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?"

The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!

your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me."

"And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.

Ye are witnesses

And I will get reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me."

But you say, "Why does he not?" Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.