Ruth 4:5
"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."
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- Deuteronomy 25:5
"If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 22:24
"Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 38:8
"And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother."
Read in chapter → - Luke 20:28
"Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother."
Read in chapter → - Ruth 3:12
"And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I."
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