Lev 18:16, Num 36:8-9, Deu 25:5-10, Rut 1:11, 4:5-11, Mat 22:23-27 | TSK

Leviticus 18:16

20:21; De 25:5; Mt 14:3,4; 22:24; Mr 6:17; 12:19; Lu 3:19

Numbers 36:8-9

every daughter.

1Ch 23:22

Deuteronomy 25:5-10

brethren.

Mt 22:24; Mr 12:19; Lu 20:28

husband's brother. or, next kinsman.

Ge 38:8,9; Ru 1:12,13; 3:9; 4:5

the first-born.

Ge 28:8-10

that his name.

9:14; 29:20; Ru 4:10-12; Ps 9:5; 109:13

brother's wife. or, next kinsman's wife. go up.

21:19; Ru 4:1-7

I like not.

Ru 4:6

loose his shoe.Pulling off the shoe seems to express his being degraded to the situation of slaves, who generally went barefoot; and spitting in or rather before, (biphney) his face, was a mark of the utmost ignominy.

Ru 4:7,8; Isa 20:2; Mr 1:7; Joh 1:27

spit.

Nu 12:14; Job 30:10; Isa 50:6; Mt 26:67; 27:30; Mr 10:34

So shall.

Ge 38:8-10; Ru 4:10,11; 1Sa 2:30

Ruth 1:11

are there.This alludes to the custom that when a married brother died, without leaving posterity, his brother should take his widow; and the children of such marriages were accounted those of the deceased brother. This address of Naomi to her daughter-in-law is exceedingly tender, persuasive, and affecting.

that they.

Ge 38:11; De 25:5

Ruth 4:5-11

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."

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

Ye are witnesses.

Ge 23:16-18; Jer 32:10-12

have I.

Ge 29:18,19,27; Pr 18:22; 19:14; 31:10,11; Ho 3:2; 12:12; Eph 5:25

the name.

De 25:6; Jos 7:9; Ps 34:16; 109:15; Isa 48:19; Zec 13:2

ye are witnesses.

Isa 8:2,3; Mal 2:14; Heb 13:4

the Lord.

Ge 24:60; Ps 127:3-5; 128:3-6

Rachel.