Deuteronomy 25:6

American Standard Version (1901)

And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 28:8-9 : 8 and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; 9 and Esau went unto Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife. 10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
  • Deut 9:14 : 14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
  • Deut 21:19 : 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
  • Deut 29:20 : 20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
  • Ruth 4:1-7 : 1 Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down. 2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down. 3 And he said unto the near kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's: 4 And I thought to disclose it unto thee, saying, Buy it before them that sit here, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem it besides thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it. 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. 6 And the near kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: take thou my right of redemption on thee; for I cannot redeem it. 7 Now this was [the custom] in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man drew off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the [manner of] attestation in Israel.
  • Ruth 4:10-12 : 10 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. 11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that is come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Beth-lehem: 12 and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which Jehovah shall give thee of this young woman.
  • Ps 9:5 : 5 Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 25:5
    84%

    5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married 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 a husband's brother unto her.

  • Deut 25:7-10
    4 verses
    81%

    7And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother unto me.

    8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;

    9then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.

    10And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

  • Matt 22:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

    24saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

    25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first married and deceased, and having no seed left his wife unto his brother;

    26in like manner the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

  • Num 27:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

    9And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.

    10And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.

    11And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

  • Mark 12:19-21
    3 verses
    75%

    19Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave a wife behind him, and leave no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

    20There were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed;

    21and the second took her, and died, leaving no seed behind him; and the third likewise:

  • Luke 20:28-30
    3 verses
    74%

    28and they asked him, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, that if a man's brother die, having a wife, and he be childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. [

    29There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died childless;

    30and the second:

  • Deut 21:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;

    16then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born:

    17but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

  • Gen 48:6
    74%

    6And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

  • Gen 38:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

    9And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

  • Lev 20:21
    72%

    21And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him.

    7And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.

  • Num 27:4
    72%

    4Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.

  • Num 36:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6This is the thing which Jehovah doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.

    7So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

    8And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.

  • 1 Chr 5:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

    2For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's),

  • Mic 5:3
    71%

    3Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she who travaileth hath brought forth: then the residue of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

  • Lev 25:25
    70%

    25If thy brother be waxed poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold.

  • Lev 21:2
    70%

    2except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

  • Num 36:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3And if they be married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

    4And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

  • Gen 29:26
    69%

    26And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.

  • Judg 21:17
    69%

    17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

  • Ruth 4:5
    68%

    5Then 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.

  • Ezek 44:25
    68%

    25And they shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

  • Gen 24:38
    68%

    38but thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
    68%

    34And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

  • Exod 13:11
    68%

    11And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,

  • Num 18:15
    67%

    15Everything that openeth the womb, of all flesh which they offer unto Jehovah, both of man and beast shall be thine: nevertheless the first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

  • Num 12:12
    67%

    12Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.