Bible Cross References
the first-born
Genesis 28:8-10
8
Esau then understood that his father Isaac did not approve of Canaanite women.
9
So he went to Ishmael son of Abraham and married his daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth.
10
Jacob left Beersheba and started toward Haran.
that his name
Deuteronomy 9:14
Don't try to stop me. I intend to destroy them so that no one will remember them any longer. Then I will make you the father of a nation larger and more powerful than they are.'
Deuteronomy 29:20
The LORD will not forgive such a man. Instead, the LORD's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the LORD has destroyed him completely.
Ruth 4:10-12
10
In addition, Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, becomes my wife. This will keep the property in the dead man's family, and his family line will continue among his people and in his hometown. You are witnesses to this today."
11
The leaders and the others said, "Yes, we are witnesses. May the LORD make your wife become like Rachel and Leah, who bore many children to Jacob. May you become rich in the clan of Ephrath and famous in Bethlehem.
12
May the children that the LORD will give you by this young woman make your family like the family of Perez, the son of Judah and Tamar."
Psalm 9:5
You have condemned the heathen and destroyed the wicked; they will be remembered no more.
Psalm 109:13
May all his descendants die, and may his name be forgotten in the next generation.
brother's wife
Deuteronomy 21:19
His parents are to take him before the leaders of the town where he lives and make him stand trial.
Ruth 4:1-7
1
Boaz went to the meeting place at the town gate and sat down there. Then Elimelech's nearest relative, the man whom Boaz had mentioned, came by, and Boaz called to him, "Come over here, my friend, and sit down." So he went over and sat down.
2
Then Boaz got ten of the leaders of the town and asked them to sit down there too. When they were seated,
3
he said to his relative, "Now that Naomi has come back from Moab, she wants to sell the field that belonged to our relative Elimelech,
4
and I think you ought to know about it. Now then, if you want it, buy it in the presence of these men sitting here. But if you don't want it, say so, because the right to buy it belongs first to you and then to me." The man said, "I will buy it."
5
Boaz said, "Very well, if you buy the field from Naomi, then you are also buying Ruth, the Moabite widow, so that the field will stay in the dead man's family."
6
The man answered, "In that case I will give up my right to buy the field, because it would mean that my own children would not inherit it. You buy it; I would rather not."
7
Now in those days, to settle a sale or an exchange of property, it was the custom for the seller to take off his sandal and give it to the buyer. In this way the Israelites showed that the matter was settled.