Deuteronomy 25:6

World English Bible (2000)

It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 28:8-9 : 8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father. 9 Esau went to 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 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
  • Deut 9:14 : 14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you 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 to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
  • Deut 29:20 : 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
  • Ruth 4:1-7 : 1 Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, "Come over here, friend, and sit down!" He turned aside, and sat down. 2 He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here." They sat down. 3 He said to the near kinsman, "Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's. 4 I thought to disclose it to you, saying, 'Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you." He said, "I will redeem it." 5 Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance." 6 The near kinsman said, "I can't redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can't redeem it." 7 Now this was [the custom] in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the [way of] attestation in Israel.
  • Ruth 4:10-12 : 10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day." 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman."
  • Ps 9:5 : 5 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever 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%

    5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • Deut 25:7-10
    4 verses
    81%

    7 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me."

    8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, "I don't want to take her;"

    9 then his brother's wife shall come to 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 to the man who does not build up his brother's house."

    10 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.

  • Matt 22:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

    24 saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'

    25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.

    26 In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

  • Num 27:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

    9 If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

    10 If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.

    11 If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.'"

  • Mark 12:19-21
    3 verses
    75%

    19 "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'

    20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

    21 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

  • Luke 20:28-30
    3 verses
    74%

    28 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

    29 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.

    30 The second took her as wife, and he died childless.

  • Deut 21:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15 If 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 firstborn son be hers who was hated;

    16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:

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

  • Gen 48:6
    74%

    6 Your issue, who you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

  • Gen 38:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

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

    9 Onan knew that the seed wouldn't be his; and it happened, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

  • Lev 20:21
    72%

    21 "'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

    7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."

  • Num 27:4
    72%

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

  • Num 36:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6 This is the thing which Yahweh does 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.

    7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

    8 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to 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%

    1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

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

  • Mic 5:3
    71%

    3 Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

  • Lev 25:25
    70%

    25 "'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

  • Lev 21:2
    70%

    2 except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,

  • Num 36:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3 If they are 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.

    4 When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to 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%

    26 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

  • Judg 21:17
    69%

    17 They said, "There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

  • Ruth 4:5
    68%

    5 Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance."

  • Ezek 44:25
    68%

    25 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 who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

  • Gen 24:38
    68%

    38 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

  • 1 Chr 1:34
    68%

    34 Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

  • Exod 13:11
    68%

    11 "It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you,

  • Num 18:15
    67%

    15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.

  • Num 12:12
    67%

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