Ruth 3:9
3:9 He said, “Who are you?”
She replied, “I am Ruth, your servant.
Marry your servant,
for you are a guardian of the family interests.”
Ruth 4:6
4:6 The guardian said, “Then I am unable to redeem it, for I would ruin my own inheritance
in that case. You may exercise my redemption option, for I am unable to redeem it.”
Leviticus 25:25
25:25 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.
Deuteronomy 25:5-7
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.
25:7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”
Job 19:25
19:25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
and that as the last
he will stand upon the earth.