Ruth 4:10

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, as my wife to raise up a descendant who will inherit his property ¹  so the name of the deceased might not disappear ²  from among his relatives and from his village. ³  You are witnesses today.”

Ge 29:18,19,27; De 25:6; Jos 7:9; Ps 34:16; Ps 109:15; Pr 18:22; Pr 19:14; Pr 31:10,11; Isa 8:2,3; Isa 48:19; Ho 3:2; Ho 12:12; Zec 13:2; Mal 2:14; Eph 5:25; Heb 13:4

¹ tn Heb “in order to raise up the name of the deceased over his inheritance” (NASB similar).

² tn Heb “be cut off” (so NASB, NRSV); NAB “may not perish.”

³ tn Heb “and from the gate of his place” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “from the court of his birth place”; NIV “from the town records.”