5 Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth¹ the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order ^bto perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”

Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage

5 ^e“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her ^fhusband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.