Leviticus 25:25
Ru 2:20; 3:2,9,12; 4:4-6; Jer 32:7,8; 2Co 8:9; Heb 2:13,14; Re 5:9Deuteronomy 25:5-7
brethren.Mt 22:24; Mr 12:19; Lu 20:28husband's brother. or, next kinsman.Ge 38:8,9; Ru 1:12,13; 3:9; 4:5 the first-born.Ge 28:8-10that his name.9:14; 29:20; Ru 4:10-12; Ps 9:5; 109:13brother's wife. or, next kinsman's wife. go up.21:19; Ru 4:1-7 7Ruth 3:9
Ruth.2:10-13; 1Sa 25:41; Lu 14:11spread therefore.Hebrew "spread thy wing;" the emblem of protection; and a metaphor taken from the young of fowls, which run under the wings of their mother from birds of prey. Even to the present day, when a Jew marries a woman, he throws the skirts of his {talith} over her, to signify that he has taken her under his protection. Eze 16:8a near kinsman. or, one that has right to redeem.12; 2:20Ruth 4:6
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." 6Job 19:25
I know.33:23,24; Ps 19:14; Isa 54:5; 59:20,21; Eph 1:7he shall.Ge 3:15; 22:18; Joh 5:22-29; Jude 1:14
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