Deuteronomy 25:6

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

⁵ “If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, the widow of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall be intimate with her after taking her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. ⁶ It shall be that her firstborn [son] will be given the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out of Israel. ⁷ But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s [widowed] wife, then she shall go up to the gate [of the city, where court is held] to the elders, and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to continue his brother’s name in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother.’

Firstborn Son

Israel

Genesis 28:8-10

So Esau realized that [his two wives] the daughters of Canaan displeased Isaac his father;

Deuteronomy 9:14

Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and wipe out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

Deuteronomy 21:19

then his father and mother shall take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

Deuteronomy 29:20

the Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him; the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

Ruth 4:1-7

Then Boaz went up to the city gate [where business and legal matters were settled] and sat down, and then the close relative (redeemer) of whom Boaz had spoken came by. He said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down.” So he came and sat down.

Ruth 4:10-12

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife to restore the name of the deceased to his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers or from the gate of his birthplace. You are witnesses today.”

Psalm 9:5

You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked and unrepentant;
You have wiped out their name forever and ever.

Psalm 109:13

Let his descendants be cut off,
And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.