Deuteronomy 25:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`And if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ruth 4:1-2 : 1 And Boaz hath gone up to the gate, and sitteth there, and lo, the redeemer is passing by of whom Boaz had spoken, and he saith, `Turn aside, sit down here, such a one, such a one;' and he turneth aside and sitteth down. 2 And he taketh ten men of the elders of the city, and saith, `Sit down here;' and they sit down.
  • Ruth 4:5-6 : 5 And Boaz saith, `In the day of thy buying the field from the hand of Naomi, then from Ruth the Moabitess, wife of the dead, thou hast bought `it', to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance.' 6 And the redeemer saith, `I am not able to redeem `it' for myself, lest I destroy mine inheritance; redeem for thyself -- thou -- my right of redemption, for I am not able to redeem.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 25:8-9
    2 verses
    88%

    8and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her;

    9`Then hath his brother's wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother;

  • Deut 25:5-6
    2 verses
    85%

    5`When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

    6and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.

  • 79%

    24`Teacher, Moses said, If any one may die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother.

    25`And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

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

  • 21`And a man who taketh his brother's wife -- it `is' impurity; the nakedness of his brother he hath uncovered; childless they are.

  • 76%

    19`Teacher, Moses wrote to us, that if any one's brother may die, and may leave a wife, and may leave no children, that his brother may take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

    20`There were then seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and dying, he left no seed;

    21and the second took her, and died, neither left he seed, and the third in like manner,

  • Gen 38:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'

    9and Onan knoweth that the seed is not `reckoned' his; and it hath come to pass, if he hath gone in unto his brother's wife, that he hath destroyed `it' to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother;

  • 74%

    28saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless -- that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.

    29`There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,

    30and the second took the wife, and he died childless,

  • Num 27:9-11
    3 verses
    74%

    9and if he have no daughter, then ye have given his inheritance to his brethren;

    10and if he have no brethren, then ye have given his inheritance to his father's brethren;

    11and if his father have no brethren, then ye have given his inheritance to his relation who is near unto him of his family, and he hath possessed it;' and it hath been to the sons of Israel for a statute of judgment, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

  • Exod 21:9-11
    3 verses
    73%

    9`And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.

    10`If another `woman' he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

    11and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.

  • 7`And who `is' the man that hath betrothed a woman, and hath not taken her? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her.

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    13`When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,

    14and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity:

    15`Then hath the father of the damsel -- and her mother -- taken and brought out the tokens of virginity of the damsel unto the elders of the city in the gate,

    16and the father of the damsel hath said unto the elders, My daughter I have given to this man for a wife, and he doth hate her;

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1`When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given `it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house,

    2and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's,

    3and the latter man hath hated her, and written for her a writing of divorce, and given `it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house, or when the latter man dieth, who hath taken her to himself for a wife:

  • Gen 24:37-38
    2 verses
    72%

    37`And my lord causeth me to swear, saying, Thou dost not take a wife to my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in whose land I am dwelling.

    38If not -- unto the house of my father thou dost go, and unto my family, and thou hast taken a wife for my son.

  • 8and if the woman be not willing to come after thee, then thou hast been acquitted from this mine oath: only my son thou dost not cause to turn back thither.'

  • 7and lo, the whole family hath risen against thy maid-servant, and say, Give up him who smiteth his brother, and we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he hath slain, and we destroy also the heir; and they have quenched my coal which is left -- so as not to set to my husband a name and remnant on the face of the ground.'

  • 15`When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;

  • 17if her father utterly refuse to give her to him, money he doth weigh out according to the dowry of virgins.

  • Lev 25:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25`When thy brother becometh poor, and hath sold his possession, then hath his redeemer who is near unto him come, and he hath redeemed the sold thing of his brother;

    26and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient `for' its redemption,

  • 22and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us `by' them, for we have not taken `to' each his wife in battle, for ye -- ye have not given to them at this time `that' ye are guilty.'

  • 16`The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it `is' thy brother's nakedness.

  • 7what do we do for them -- for those who are left -- for wives, and we -- we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?'

  • 13and a man hath lain with her `with' the seed of copulation, and it hath been hid from the eyes of her husband, and concealed, and she hath been defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she hath not been caught,

  • 30`A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common;

  • 1`Thou dost not see the ox of thy brother or his sheep driven away, and hast hidden thyself from them, thou dost certainly turn them back to thy brother;

  • 41then art thou acquitted from my oath, when thou comest unto my family, and if they give not `one' to thee; then thou hast been acquitted from my oath.

  • 11and her husband hath heard, and hath kept silent at her -- he hath not disallowed her -- then have all her vows been established, and every bond which she hath bound on her soul is established.