Deuteronomy 25:6
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The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
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May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.
Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven