Ruth 4:6
And the near relation said, I am not able to do the relation's part, for fear of damaging the heritage I have: you may do it in my place, for I am not able to do it myself.
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Ruth 4:6
And the near relation said, I am not able to do the relation's part, for fear of damaging the heritage I have: you may do it in my place, for I am not able to do it myself.
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Ruth 4:5
Then Boaz said, On the day when you take this field, you will have to take with it Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, so that you may keep the name of the dead living in his heritage.
Leviticus 25:25
If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.
Jeremiah 32:7
See, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your father's brother, will come to you and say, Give the price and get for yourself my property in Anathoth: for you have the right of the nearest relation.
Jeremiah 32:8
So Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, came to me, as the Lord had said, to the place of the armed watchmen, and said to me, Give the price and get my property which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for you have the nearest relation's right to the heritage; so get it for yourself. Then it was clear to me that this was the word of the Lord.
Leviticus 25:49
Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.
Ruth 3:12
Now it is true that I am a near relation: but there is a relation nearer than I.
Ruth 2:20
And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.
Ruth 3:9
And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation.
Job 19:25
But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
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Deuteronomy 25:5
If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.
Deuteronomy 25:6
Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.
Deuteronomy 25:7
But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.
Deuteronomy 25:8
Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;
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