Ruth 3:13 Cross References - LEB

¹³ _⌊Stay tonight,_⌋* and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good; but if he is not willing to redeem, _⌊then as Yahweh lives,_⌋* I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning."

⁵ "When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a _⌊man of another family_⌋;* her brother-in-law _⌊shall have sex with her_⌋,* and he shall take her _⌊to himself_⌋* as a wife, and he shall perform his duty as a brother-in-law with respect to her. ⁶ And then the firstborn that she bears _⌊shall represent his dead brother_⌋,* so that his name is not blotted out from Israel. ⁷ But if the man does not want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and she shall say, 'My brother-in-law refused _⌊to perpetuate his brother's name_⌋* in Israel, for he is not willing _⌊to marry me_⌋.'* ⁸ Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him, and if he persists and says, '_⌊I do not desire to_⌋* marry her' ⁹ then his sister-in-law shall go near him before the eyes of the elders, and she shall pull off his sandal from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall _⌊declare_⌋* and she shall say, 'This is how it is done to the man who does not build the house of his brother.'

¹⁹ He said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had kept them alive I would not kill you."

²⁰ And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by Yahweh, whose loyal love has not forsaken the living or the dead." And Naomi said to her, "The man is a close relative for us, he is one of our redeemers."

⁵ And Boaz said, "On the day of your acquiring the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the dead man, in order to raise up for the name of the dead his inheritance."

² and you swear, '_⌊As Yahweh lives_⌋,'* in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations will be blessed by him, and in him they will boast."

²⁴ saying, "Teacher, Moses said if someone dies without having children, his brother is to marry his wife and _⌊father_⌋* descendants for his brother. ²⁵ Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first died after* getting married, and because he* did not have descendants, he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ So also the second and the third, up to the seventh. ²⁷ And last of all the woman died.

²³ But I call upon God as witness against my life, that in order to* spare you, I did not come again to Corinth.

¹⁶ For people swear by what is greater than themselves, and the oath for confirmation is the end of all dispute for them.