Deuteronomy 21:19

and bring.

2; 16:18; 25:7; Zec 13:3

Ruth 4:1-7

1 Boaz calls into judgment the next kinsman.

6 He refuses the redemption according to the manner in Israel.

9 Boaz buys the inheritance.

11 He marries Ruth.

13 She bears Obed, the grandfather of David.

18 The generations of Pharez unto David.

to the gate.

De 16:18; 17:5; 21:19; 25:7; Job 29:7; 31:21; Am 5:10-12,15

the kinsman.

3:12

Ho, such.

Isa 55:1; Zec 2:6

the elders.

Ex 18:21,22; 21:8; De 29:10; 31:28; 1Ki 21:8; Pr 31:23; La 5:14

Ac 6:12

he said.

Ps 112:5; Pr 13:10

I thought. Heb. I said I will reveal in thine ear. Buy it.

Jer 32:7-9,25; Ro 12:17; 2Co 8:21; Php 4:8

before the inhabitants.

Ge 23:18; Jer 32:10-12

for there is none.

Le 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 MSS. 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.

3:12,13; Ge 38:8; De 25:5,6; Mt 22:24; Lu 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."

6

a man plucked off.This custom does not refer to the law about refusing to marry a brother's widow, but was usual in the transfer of inheritances: for this relative was not a brother, but simply a kinsman; and the shoe was not pulled off by Ruth, but by the kinsman himself. The Targumist, instead of his shoe, renders "his right hand glove," it probably being the custom, in his time, to give that instead of a shoe. Jarchi says, "When we purchase any thing new, it is customary to give, instead of a shoe, a handkerchief or veil."

De 25:7-10
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