Deuteronomy 25:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name.

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  • Num 12:14 : 14 And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.
  • Ruth 4:7-8 : 7 Now, in earlier times this was the way in Israel when property was taken over by a near relation, or when there was a change of owner. To make the exchange certain one man took off his shoe and gave it to the other; and this was a witness in Israel. 8 So the near relation said to Boaz, Take it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.
  • Isa 50:6 : 6 I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.
  • Job 30:10 : 10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.
  • Isa 20:2 : 2 At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet.
  • Gen 38:8-9 : 8 Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother. 9 But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother. 10 And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death, like his brother.
  • Matt 26:67 : 67 Then they put shame on him, and were cruel to him: and some gave him blows, saying,
  • Matt 27:30 : 30 And they put shame on him, and gave him blows on the head with the rod.
  • Mark 1:7 : 7 And he said to them all, There is one coming after me who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.
  • Mark 10:34 : 34 And they will make sport of him, and put shame on him, and give him cruel blows, and will put him to death; and after three days he will come back from the dead.
  • John 1:27 : 27 It is he who is coming after me; I am not good enough to undo his shoes.
  • Ruth 4:10-11 : 10 And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day. 11 And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.

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  • Deut 25:10-12
    3 verses
    85%

    10 And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.

    11 If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;

    12 Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

  • Deut 25:5-8
    4 verses
    80%

    5 If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

    6 Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.

    7 But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.

    8 Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;

  • Ruth 4:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 Now, in earlier times this was the way in Israel when property was taken over by a near relation, or when there was a change of owner. To make the exchange certain one man took off his shoe and gave it to the other; and this was a witness in Israel.

    8 So the near relation said to Boaz, Take it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.

  • Deut 28:30
    72%

    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Lev 20:21
    70%

    21 And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.

  • Job 31:10
    70%

    10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

  • Deut 22:14
    70%

    14 And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

  • Isa 3:6
    70%

    6 When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:

  • Gen 38:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.

    9 But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.

  • 2 Sam 14:7
    69%

    7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

  • Deut 22:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18 Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;

    19 They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the father of the girl, because he has given an evil name to a virgin of Israel: she will go on being his wife, he may never put her away all his life.

  • Deut 28:54
    69%

    54 That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

  • Deut 28:56
    68%

    56 The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

  • Exod 21:9-11
    3 verses
    68%

    9 And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

    10 And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

    11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

  • Deut 22:24
    68%

    24 Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • Lev 25:25
    68%

    25 If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.

  • Deut 19:19
    68%

    19 Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.

  • Matt 22:25
    68%

    25 Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

  • 1 Kgs 9:8
    68%

    8 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

  • Lev 18:16
    68%

    16 You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

  • Deut 24:1
    67%

    1 If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

  • Prov 25:17
    67%

    17 Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

  • Jer 22:13
    67%

    13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

  • Deut 19:12
    67%

    12 The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

  • Amos 2:7
    67%

    7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

  • Ps 109:9
    67%

    9 Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
    67%

    11 The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.

  • Amos 5:11
    67%

    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Ezek 18:11
    67%

    11 Who has taken flesh with the blood as food, and has had connection with his neighbour's wife,

  • Lev 24:19
    67%

    19 And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him;

  • Deut 28:35
    67%

    35 The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.

  • Mark 12:19
    67%

    19 Master, in the law Moses says, If a man's brother comes to his end, and has a wife still living and no child, it is right for his brother to take his wife, and get a family for his brother.

  • Num 5:27
    67%

    27 And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

  • Judg 19:23
    67%

    23 So the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said, No, my brothers, do not this evil thing; this man has come into my house, and you are not to do him this wrong.

  • Num 5:13
    67%

    13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • Deut 22:21
    67%

    21 Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • Deut 15:17
    66%

    17 Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

  • Deut 22:29
    66%

    29 Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.

  • Amos 6:10
    66%

    10 And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.

  • Num 27:10
    66%

    10 And if he has no brothers, then give his heritage to his father's brothers.