When reading Ruth 4:10 after knowing the Law of Deuteronomy 25:6, **Should Obed be remembered as "the son of Mahlon" in Ruth 4:21 (instead of Boaz) when reciting genealogical records?**

NIV | **Deuteronomy 25:5-9**

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> 5 If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her. 
> **6 The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.**
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> 7 However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”
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> 8 Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,”
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> 9 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.”
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> 10 That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.
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* Ruth 4:10 restated this principle "10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, **so that his name will not disappear from among his family** or from his hometown."

Yet the Genealogy of Obed claims Boaz as his Father (instead of Mahlon) in **Ruth 4:21 "Boaz the father of Obed"**