Deuteronomy 25:6
Good News Translation
The first son that they have will be considered the son of the dead man, so that his family line will continue in Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
and the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed to the name of the deceased brother, so that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

New American Bible
The firstborn son she bears shall continue the name of the deceased brother, that his name may not be blotted out from Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel.

the first-born

Genesis 28:8-10 Experiencing also, that his father was not well pleased with the daughters of Chanaan: . . .

that his name

Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.

Deuteronomy 29:20 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,

Ruth 4:10 And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.

Psalm 9:5 Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

Psalm 109:13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

brother's wife.

Deuteronomy 21:19 They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment,

Ruth 4:1-7 Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him, calling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down. . . .

Context
Widowhood and Marriage
5When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother: 6And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel.7But if he will not take his brother's wife, who by law belongeth to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband's brother refuseth to raise up his brother's name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.…
Cross References
Genesis 38:8
Juda, therefore, said to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother's wife and marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother.

Genesis 38:9
He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother's wife, he spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother's name.

Ruth 4:5
And Booz said to him: When thou shalt buy the field at the woman's hand, thou must take also Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of the deceased: to raise up the name of thy kinsman in his inheritance.

Ruth 4:10
And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.

Deuteronomy 25:5
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