Bible Cross References
kinsman
Leviticus 25:25
' If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold [some] of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold.
Leviticus 25:49
'or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him; or [anyone] who is near of kin to him in his family may redeem him; or if he is able he may redeem himself.
Ruth 4:3-6
3
Then he said to the close relative, "Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, sold the piece of land which [belonged] to our brother Elimelech.
4
"And I thought to inform you, saying, 'Buy [it] back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you will redeem [it,] redeem [it;] but if you will not redeem [it, then] tell me, that I may know; for [there is] no one but you to redeem [it,] and I [am] next after you.' " And he said, "I will redeem [it."]
5
Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also buy [it] from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance."
6
And the close relative said, "I cannot redeem [it] for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. You redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem [it."]
Jeremiah 32:8
"Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said to me, 'Please buy my field that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the country of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance [is] yours, and the redemption yours; buy [it] for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
a statute
Numbers 35:29
' And these [things] shall be a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
1 Samuel 30:25
So it was, from that day forward; he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.