Bible Cross References
If
Genesis 38:8
And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife, and marry her as her brother-in-law, and raise up seed to your brother.
Deuteronomy 25:5-10
5
And if brothers should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out [of the family] to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her.
6
And it shall come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of Israel.
7
And if the man should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my husband's brother has refused.
8
And the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stand and say, I will not take her,
9
then his brother's wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother's house in Israel.
10
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has had his shoe loosed.
Ruth 4:5
And Boaz said, On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi and of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the deceased, you must also buy her, so as to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
that
Ruth 1:11-13
11
And Naomi said, Return now, my daughters; and why do you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb to be your husbands?
12
Turn now, my daughters, for I am too old to be married: for I said, Suppose I were married, and should bear sons;
13
would you wait for them till they should be grown? Or would you refrain from being married for their sakes? Not so, my daughters, for I am grieved for you, that the hand of the Lord has gone forth against me.