Deuteronomy 25:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and 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;

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  • Ruth 4:6 : 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.'

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  • Deut 25:5-7
    3 verses
    88%

    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;

    6 and 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.

    7 `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;

  • Deut 25:9-10
    2 verses
    80%

    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;

    10 and his name hath been called in Israel -- The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.

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

    14 and 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,

    16 and 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;

    17 and lo, he hath laid actions of words, saying, I have not found to thy daughter tokens of virginity -- and these `are' the tokens of the virginity of my daughter! and they have spread out the garment before the elders of the city.

    18 `And the elders of that city have taken the man, and chastise him,

    19 and fined him a hundred silverlings, and given to the father of the damsel, because he hath brought out an evil name on a virgin of Israel, and she is to him for a wife, he is not able to send her away all his days.

    20 `And if this thing hath been truth -- tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel --

  • 8 and 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.'

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    16 `And when a man doth entice a virgin who `is' not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife;

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

  • Gen 24:37-39
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

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

    39 `And I say unto my lord, It may be the woman doth not come after me;

  • 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.

  • Exod 21:8-11
    4 verses
    70%

    8 if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

    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;

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

  • 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,

  • 2 and her father saith, I certainly said, that thou didst certainly hate her, and I give her to thy companion; is not her sister -- the young one -- better than she? Let her be, I pray thee, to thee, instead of her.'

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    14 `And it hath been -- if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.

    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;

  • 29 then hath the man who is lying with her given to the father of the damsel fifty silverlings, and to him she is for a wife; because that he hath humbled her, he is not able to send her away all his days.

  • 11 and 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.

  • 16 `And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee -- because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because `it is' good for him with thee --

  • 5 And the servant saith unto him, `It may be the woman is not willing to come after me unto this land; do I at all cause thy son to turn back unto the land from whence thou camest out?'

  • 8 And all the elders and all the people say unto him, `Do not hearken, nor consent.'

  • 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;

  • 3 and 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:

  • 3 And his father saith to him -- also his mother, `Is there not among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, a woman, that thou art going to take a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines?' and Samson saith unto his father, `Take her for me, for she is right in mine eyes.'

  • 26 and if thus He say, I have not delighted in thee; here `am' I, He doth to me as `is' good in His eyes.'

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

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    23 `When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;

    24 then ye have brought them both out unto the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they have died: -- the damsel, because that she hath not cried, `being' in a city; and the man, because that he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

  • 8 `And if in the day of her husband's hearing he disalloweth her, then he hath broken her vow which `is' on her, and the wrongful utterance of her lips which she hath bound on her soul, and Jehovah is propitious to her.

  • 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;

  • 28 and he saith unto her, `Rise, and we go;' and there is none answering, and he taketh her on the ass, and the man riseth and goeth to his place,

  • 12 And she saith to him, `Nay, my brother, do not humble me, for it is not done so in Israel; do not this folly.

  • 41 then 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.

  • 12 then the elders of his city have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died;

  • 22 and 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.'

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

  • 8 And the redeemer saith to Boaz, `Buy `it' for thyself,' and draweth off his sandal.