Deuteronomy 25:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`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;

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 12:14 : 14 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `And her father had but spat in her face -- is she not ashamed seven days? she is shut out seven days at the outside of the camp, and afterwards she is gathered.'
  • Ruth 4:7-8 : 7 And this `is' formerly in Israel for redemption and for changing, to establish anything: a man hath drawn off his sandal, and given `it' to his neighbour, and this `is' the testimony in Israel. 8 And the redeemer saith to Boaz, `Buy `it' for thyself,' and draweth off his sandal.
  • Isa 50:6 : 6 My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting.
  • Job 30:10 : 10 They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.
  • Isa 20:2 : 2 at that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, `Go, and thou hast loosed the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thy sandal thou dost draw from off thy foot,' and he doth so, going naked and barefoot.
  • Gen 38:8-9 : 8 And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;' 9 and 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; 10 and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death.
  • Matt 26:67 : 67 Then did they spit in his face and buffet him, and others did slap,
  • Matt 27:30 : 30 And having spit on him, they took the reed, and were smiting on his head;
  • Mark 1:7 : 7 and he proclaimed, saying, `He doth come -- who is mightier than I -- after me, of whom I am not worthy -- having stooped down -- to loose the latchet of his sandals;
  • Mark 10:34 : 34 and they shall mock him, and scourge him, and spit on him, and kill him, and the third day he shall rise again.'
  • John 1:27 : 27 of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'
  • Ruth 4:10-11 : 10 and also Ruth the Moabitess, wife of Mahlon, I have bought to myself for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance; and the name of the dead is not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place; witnesses ye `are' to-day.' 11 And all the people who `are' in the gate say -- also the elders -- `Witnesses! Jehovah make the woman who is coming in unto thy house as Rachel and as Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel; and do thou virtuously in Ephrathah, and proclaim the Name in Beth-Lehem;
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 `Therefore -- the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel -- I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.

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  • Deut 25:10-12
    3 verses
    85%

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

    11`When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets,

    12then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.

  • Deut 25:5-8
    4 verses
    80%

    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.

    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;

    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;

  • Ruth 4:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7And this `is' formerly in Israel for redemption and for changing, to establish anything: a man hath drawn off his sandal, and given `it' to his neighbour, and this `is' the testimony in Israel.

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

  • Deut 28:30
    72%

    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;

  • Lev 20:21
    70%

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

  • Job 31:10
    70%

    10Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.

  • Deut 22:14
    70%

    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:

  • Isa 3:6
    70%

    6When one layeth hold on his brother, `Of' the house of his father, `by' the garment, `Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin `is' under thy hand.'

  • Gen 38:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    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;

  • 2 Sam 14:7
    69%

    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.'

  • Deut 22:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

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

    19and 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.

  • Deut 28:54
    69%

    54`The man who is tender in thee, and who `is' very delicate -- his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth,

  • Deut 28:56
    68%

    56`The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness -- her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,

  • Exod 21:9-11
    3 verses
    68%

    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.

  • Deut 22:24
    68%

    24then 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.

  • Lev 25:25
    68%

    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;

  • Deut 19:19
    68%

    19`Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst,

  • Matt 22:25
    68%

    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;

  • 1 Kgs 9:8
    68%

    8as to this house, `that' is high, every one passing by it is astonished, and hath hissed, and they have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

  • Lev 18:16
    68%

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

  • Deut 24:1
    67%

    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,

  • Prov 25:17
    67%

    17Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house, Lest he be satiated `with' thee, and have hated thee.

  • Jer 22:13
    67%

    13Wo to him who is building his house by unrighteousness, And his upper chambers by injustice, On his neighbour he layeth service for nought, And his wage he doth not give to him.

  • Deut 19:12
    67%

    12then 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;

  • Amos 2:7
    67%

    7Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.

  • Ps 109:9
    67%

    9His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
    67%

    11thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am raising up against thee evil, out of thy house, and have taken thy wives before thine eyes, and given to thy neighbour, and he hath lain with thy wives before the eyes of this sun;

  • Amos 5:11
    67%

    11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

  • Ezek 18:11
    67%

    11And he all those hath not done, For even on the mountains he hath eaten, And the wife of his neighbour he hath defiled,

  • Lev 24:19
    67%

    19`And when a man putteth a blemish in his fellow, as he hath done so it is done to him;

  • Deut 28:35
    67%

    35`Jehovah doth smite thee with an evil ulcer, on the knees, and on the legs (of which thou art not able to be healed), from the sole of thy foot even unto thy crown.

  • Mark 12:19
    67%

    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.

  • Num 5:27
    67%

    27yea, he hath caused her to drink the water, and it hath come to pass, if she hath been defiled, and doth commit a trespass against her husband, that the waters which cause the curse have gone into her for bitter things, and her belly hath swelled, and her thigh hath fallen, and the woman hath become an execration in the midst of her people.

  • Judg 19:23
    67%

    23And the man, the master of the house, goeth out unto them, and saith unto them, `Nay, my brethren, do not evil, I pray you, after that this man hath come in unto my house, do not this folly;

  • Num 5:13
    67%

    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,

  • Deut 22:21
    67%

    21then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father's house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel, to go a-whoring `in' her father's house; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

  • Deut 15:17
    66%

    17then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put `it' through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so.

  • Deut 22:29
    66%

    29then 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.

  • Amos 6:10
    66%

    10And lifted him up hath his loved one, even his burner, To bring forth the bones from the house, And he said to him who `is' in the sides of the house, `Is there yet with thee?' And he said, `None,' then he said, `Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'

  • Num 27:10
    66%

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