Ruth 2:20-23
2:20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be rewarded by the
Lord because he
has shown loyalty to the living on behalf of the dead!”
Then Naomi said to her, “This man is a close relative of ours; he is our guardian.”
2:21 Ruth the Moabite replied, “He even
told me, ‘You may go along beside my servants
until they have finished gathering all my harvest!’”
2:22 Naomi then said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “It is good, my daughter, that you should go out to work with his female servants.
That way you will not be harmed, which could happen in another field.”
2:23 So Ruth
worked beside
Boaz’s female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest.
After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law.
Deuteronomy 25:5-6
Respect for the Sanctity of Others
25:5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.
25:6 Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.
Hebrews 2:11-14
2:11 For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin,
and so
he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,
2:12 saying, “
I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.”
2:13 Again he says,
“I will be confident in him,” and again, “
Here I am, with the children God has given me.”
2:14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in
their humanity,
so that through death he could destroy
the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil),