Ruth 4:4-6
I thought Heb. I said I will reveal in thine ear Buy it Jer 32:7-9, Jer 32:25; Rom 12:17; 2Cor 8:21; Phil 4:8 before the inhabitants Gen 23:18; Jer 32:10-12 for there is none Lev 25:25-29 What day Or rather, according to the emendations proposed by Houbigant and Dr. Kennicott, and which have been confirmed by a great many manuscripts since collated, and agreeably to the ancient versions, "In the day thou purchasest the land from the hand of Naomi, thou wilt also acquire Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead," etc. This is Boaz's statement of the case to his kinsman, before the people and elders. to raise up Ruth 3:12-13; Gen 38:8; Deut 25:5-6; Matt 22:24; Luke 20:28 I cannot The Targum seems to give the proper sense of this passage: "I cannot redeem it, because I have a wife already; and it is not fit for me to bring another into my house, lest brawling and contention arise in it; and lest I hurt my own inheritance. Do thou redeem it, for thou has no wife; which hinders me from redeeming it." Ruth 4:6
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