Ruth 4:7 Cross References

Ruth 4:7

7: In those days it was the custom in Israel for anyone transferring a right of purchase to remove his sandal and hand it to the other party. This publicly validated the transaction.

Deuteronomy 25:7

  1. But if the dead man's brother refuses to marry the widow, she must go to the town gate and say to the leaders there, `My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel--he refuses to marry me.'
  2. The leaders of the town will then summon him and try to reason with him. If he still insists that he doesn't want to marry her,
  3. the widow must walk over to him in the presence of the leaders, pull his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then say, `This is what happens to a man who refuses to raise up a son for his brother.'
  4. Ever afterward his family will be referred to as `the family of the man whose sandal was pulled off'!
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