⁵ Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth^[a] the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order ^(A)to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”

Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage

^5 (A)“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 ^(B)husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.