Deuteronomy 25:6

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Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

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  • Gen 28:8-9 : 8 Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac. 9 So Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had. 10 Jacob’s Dream at Bethel Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.
  • Deut 9:14 : 14 Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”
  • Deut 21:19 : 19 his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.
  • Deut 29:20 : 20 The LORD will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the LORD will obliterate his name from memory.
  • Ruth 4:1-7 : 1 Boaz Settles the Matter Now Boaz went up to the village gate and sat there. Then along came the guardian whom Boaz had mentioned to Ruth! Boaz said,“Come here, what’s-your-name, and sit down.” So he came and sat down. 2 Boaz chose ten of the village leaders and said,“Sit down here!” So they sat down. 3 Then Boaz said to the guardian,“Naomi, who has returned from the region of Moab, is selling the portion of land that belongs to our relative Elimelech. 4 So I am legally informing you: Acquire it before those sitting here and before the leaders of my people! If you want to exercise your right to redeem it, then do so. But if not, then tell me so I will know. For you possess the first option to redeem it; I am next in line after you.” He replied,“I will redeem it.” 5 Then Boaz said,“When you acquire the field from Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the wife of our deceased relative, in order to preserve his family name by raising up a descendant who will inherit his property.” 6 The guardian said,“Then I am unable to redeem it, for I would ruin my own inheritance in that case. You may exercise my redemption option, for I am unable to redeem it.” 7 (Now this used to be the customary way to finalize a transaction involving redemption in Israel: A man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party. This was a legally binding act in Israel.)
  • Ruth 4:10-12 : 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, as my wife to raise up a descendant who will inherit his property so the name of the deceased might not disappear from among his relatives and from his village. You are witnesses today.” 11 All the people who were at the gate and the elders replied,“We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is entering your home like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built up the house of Israel! May you prosper in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem. 12 May your family become like the family of Perez– whom Tamar bore to Judah– through the descendants the LORD gives you by this young woman.”
  • Ps 9:5 : 5 You terrified the nations with your battle cry; you destroyed the wicked; you permanently wiped out all memory of them.
  • Ps 109:13 : 13 May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 25:5
    84%

    5Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.

  • Deut 25:7-10
    4 verses
    81%

    7But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say,“My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”

    8Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying,“I don’t want to marry her,”

    9then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then respond,“Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother’s family line!”

    10His family name will be referred to in Israel as“the family of the one whose sandal was removed.”

  • Matt 22:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

    24“Teacher, Moses said,‘If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

    25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.

    26The second did the same, and the third, down to the seventh.

  • Num 27:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8And you must tell the Israelites,‘If a man dies and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;

    9and if he has no daughter, then you are to give his inheritance to his brothers;

    10and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;

    11and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”

  • Mark 12:19-21
    3 verses
    75%

    19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us:‘If a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

    20There were seven brothers. The first one married, and when he died he had no children.

    21The second married her and died without any children, and likewise the third.

  • Luke 20:28-30
    3 verses
    74%

    28They asked him,“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.

    29Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died without children.

    30The second

  • Deut 21:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15Laws Concerning Children Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

    16In the day he divides his inheritance he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other wife’s son who is actually the firstborn.

    17Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved wife as firstborn and give him the double portion of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power– to him should go the right of the firstborn.

  • Gen 48:6
    74%

    6Any children that you father after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.

  • Gen 38:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Then Judah said to Onan,“Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise up a descendant for your brother.”

    9But Onan knew that the child would not be considered his. So whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he wasted his emission on the ground so as not to give his brother a descendant.

  • Lev 20:21
    72%

    21If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

    7Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”

  • Num 27:4
    72%

    4Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among the relatives of our father.”

  • Num 36:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6This is what the LORD has commanded for Zelophehad’s daughters:‘Let them marry whomever they think best, only they must marry within the family of their father’s tribe.

    7In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

    8And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers.

  • 1 Chr 5:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Reuben’s Descendants The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn–(Now he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father’s bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph, Israel’s son. So Reuben is not listed as firstborn in the genealogical records.

    2Though Judah was the strongest among his brothers and a leader descended from him, the right of the firstborn belonged to Joseph.)

  • Mic 5:3
    71%

    3So the LORD will hand the people of Israel over to their enemies until the time when the woman in labor gives birth. Then the rest of the king’s countrymen will return to be reunited with the people of Israel.

  • Lev 25:25
    70%

    25“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.

  • Lev 21:2
    70%

    2except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

  • Num 36:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3Now if they should be married to one of the men from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

    4And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.”

  • Gen 29:26
    69%

    26“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied,“to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

  • Judg 21:17
    69%

    17The remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.

  • Ruth 4:5
    68%

    5Then Boaz said,“When you acquire the field from Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the wife of our deceased relative, in order to preserve his family name by raising up a descendant who will inherit his property.”

  • Ezek 44:25
    68%

    25“‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or unmarried sister, they may defile themselves.

  • Gen 24:38
    68%

    38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

  • 1 Chr 1:34
    68%

    34Isaac’s Descendants Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.

  • Exod 13:11
    68%

    11When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • Num 18:15
    67%

    15The firstborn of every womb which they present to the LORD, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.

  • Num 12:12
    67%

    12Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!”