Cross references
Ruth 4:5
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”
Ruth 4:5 has 5 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 38:8 (5 votes) and Deuteronomy 25:5–6 (5 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Genesis 38 to Luke 20.
Which verses does Ruth 4:5 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Genesis 38:85 votes
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- Deuteronomy 25:5–65 votes
When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her. The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
- Matthew 22:245 votes
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
- Ruth 3:12–132 votes
Yes, it is true that I am a kinsman-redeemer, but there is a redeemer nearer than I. Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.”
- Luke 20:282 votes
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
Which verses point to Ruth 4:5?
Ranked by reader votes.