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 loveth Rachel, and saith, 'I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:'

Whoso hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

House and wealth are the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah is an understanding wife.

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies is her price.

And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;

And Jacob doth flee to the country of Aram, And Israel doth serve for a wife, Yea, for a wife he hath kept watch.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

The name

and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.

and the Canaanite and all the inhabitants of the land do hear, and have come round against us, and cut off our name out of the earth; and what dost Thou do for Thy great name?'

(The face of Jehovah is on doers of evil, To cut off from earth their memorial.)

They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

And as sand is thy seed, And the offspring of thy bowels as its gravel, Not cut off nor destroyed his name before Me.

And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, I cut off the names of the idols from the land, And they are not remembered any more, And also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I cause to pass away from the land.

Ye are witnesses

And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.

And ye have said, 'Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.