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

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

He who finds a wife finds good, and he will obtain favor from Yahweh.

A house and wealth [are] an inheritance [from] fathers, but from Yahweh [comes] a woman who is prudent.

A woman of excellence, who will find? For her worth [is] far more than precious jewels.

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barely and a measure of wine.

Jacob fled [to] the open field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he watched over [sheep].

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

The name

And then the firstborn that she bears {shall represent his dead brother}, so that his name is not blotted out from Israel.

The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear [of this], and they will surround us and cut off our name from the land. What will you do, for your great name?"

The face of Yahweh [is] against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from [the] earth.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from [the] earth,

And your offspring would have been like the sand, and the descendants of your {body} like its grains. It would not be cut off, and its name would not be destroyed from my presence."

{And then}, on that day,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I will banish from the land.

Ye are witnesses

And I will require reliable witnesses as a witness for me: Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah."

But you ask, "{For what reason}?" Because Yahweh stands as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been unfaithful, even though she [is] your marriage partner and {your wife by covenant}.

Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.