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Verse Ruth 4:6. _I CANNOT REDEEM_ IT _FOR MYSELF_] The _Targum_ gives
the proper sense of this passage: "And the kinsman said, On this
ground I cannot redeem it, because I have a wife already; and I...
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I MAR MINE OWN INHERITANCE - The meaning of these words is doubtful.
Some explain them by saying that the גאל _gā'al_ had a wife and
children already, and would not introduce strife into his family....
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CHAPTER 4 THE REDEMPTION AND MARRIAGE
_ 1. The other kinsman (Ruth 4:1)_
2. His refusal (Ruth 4:6)
3. Boaz's redemption (Ruth 4:9)
4. The marriage (R
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RUTH 4. RUTH'S MARRIAGE.
Ruth 4:1. Instead of such an one! Boaz called the person's actual
name, which the narrator either does not know or does not see any need
for bringing into the story.
Ruth 4:2...
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_lest I mar mine own inheritance_ When the Go'el learns that if he
redeems the estate he is expected to marry the widow, he takes back
his promise (Ruth 4:4). He declares that he cannot afford to be s...
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I CANNOT REDEEM IT FOR MYSELF, &C.— The Chaldee paraphrases thus: "I
cannot redeem it upon this condition, because I have a wife already,
and do not choose to bring another into my house, lest quarrel...
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Ruth Marries Boaz Ruth 4:1-22
_Boaz Redeems the Inheritance Ruth 4:1-8_
Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold,
the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said,...
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_AND THE KINSMAN SAID, I CANNOT REDEEM IT FOR MYSELF, LEST I MAR MINE
OWN INHERITANCE: REDEEM THOU MY RIGHT TO THYSELF; FOR I CANNOT REDEEM
IT._
I cannot redeem it ... lest I mar mine own inheritance...
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THE MARRIAGE OF BOAZ AND RUTH. THE BIRTH OF THEIR CHILD
1. Boaz WENT UP from the threshing floor to the open space by the
city-gate, where the business he had in hand would have to be done,
where, to...
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The kinsman draws back. The Rabbinic commentator thought that he was
afraid of dying by God's judgment for marrying a Moabite, as Mahlon
and Chilion had perished. But his motive seems to have been an...
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THERE IS A *REDEEMER
BOOK OF RUTH
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are notes on the Bible text.
CHAPTER 4
V1 Boaz went to the gate of the town and he sat down there. Then the
other *redeemer...
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LEST I MAR... — The redemption of the land would involve the
spending of money, drawn away from the _Goel’s_ own estate; but the
land thus acquired would not belong to the _Goel_ himself, but to the
s...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר הַ גֹּאֵ֗ל לֹ֤א אוּכַל֙
_לִ_†גְאָל
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THE MARRIAGE AT THE GATE
Ruth 4:1
A SIMPLE ceremony of Oriental life brings to a climax the history
which itself closes in sweet music the stormy drama of the Book of
Judges. With all the literary sk...
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IN THE LINE OF DAVID'S ANCESTRY
Ruth 4:1
We are admitted here to a graphic picture of the old world. Men's
memories were longer and stronger than ours: and what was done
publicly in the Gate, the pla...
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The nobility and faithfulness of Boaz are clearly manifested in this
story. It is hardly possible to read this Book without being convinced
that Boaz had already found himself in love with Ruth, which...
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Family. Hebrew, "I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I spoil my own
inheritance." He was afraid of having too many children, and sensible
that the first son that should be born of the proposed marriag...
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And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the
country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother
Elimelech's: (4) And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it
bef...
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FROM: LECTURES INTRODUCTORY TO THE EARLIER HISTORICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT.
W. Kelly.
That the book of Ruth stands most fitly in the place where it is
actually found must have been felt by the...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4.
The Book of Ruth tells us also of the days of the judges, when there
was no king in Israel; but it shews us the fair side of those days, in
the o...
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AND THE KINSMAN SAID, I CANNOT REDEEM IT FOR MYSELF,.... On such a
condition, because he had a wife, as the Targum suggests; and to take
another would, as that intimates, tend to introduce contention...
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And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem [it] for myself, lest I mar mine
own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem
[it].
Ver. 6. _I cannot redeem it._] And again, I cannot r...
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1 Boaz calleth into iudgment the next kinseman.
6 He refuseth the redemption according to the maner in Israel.
9 Boaz buyeth the inheritance.
11 He marrieth Ruth.
13 She beareth Obed the grandfath...
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THE NEARER RELATIVE DECLINES TO ACT...
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And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, he could not
fulfill that condition, LEST I MAR MINE OWN INHERITANCE, for he held
it possible to decline in the case of a woman of Moab what he wou...
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THE FAITHFULNESS AND GRACE OF BOAZ
(vv. 1-12)
The same morning Boaz went to the gate of the city, the place of
judgment, sitting there until the close relative of whom he spoke came
by(v. 1).At the...
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1-8 This matter depended on the laws given by Moses about
inheritances, and doubtless the whole was settled in the regular and
legal manner. This kinsman, when he heard the conditions of the
bargain,...
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LEST I MAR MINE OWN INHERITANCE; either, first, Because having no
children of his own, he might have one, and but one, son by Ruth, who,
though he should carry away his inheritance, yet should not bea...
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Ruth 4:6 relative H1350 (H8802) said H559 (H8799) cannot H3201 (H8799)
redeem H1350 (H8800) ruin...
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‘ And the near kinsman said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest
I mar my own inheritance. You take my right of redemption on you, for
I cannot redeem it.”
As soon as the near kinsman learned what wo...
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RUTH 1-4
The Book of Ruth is a love-story told in four Chapter s. It gives us a
glimpse of everyday life in Bethlehem; in home and in harvest-field,
in its general gossip and its law-suits, more than...
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CONTENTS: Ruth finds reward in her marriage to Boaz.
CHARACTERS: God, Boaz, Ruth, Naomi, kinsman, Obed.
CONCLUSION: Fair and square dealings in all matters of contract and
business is what all those...
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Ruth 4:1. _The gate:_ the place of justice. Job 29; Genesis 19. Ten
men judged and attested the fairness of the price until the jubilee.
Such sales being open, were freer from disputes. Boaz took ten...
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_I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance._
THE ENDANGERED INHERITANCE
Many men mar noble inheritances.
I. The inheritance of physical health. The ancients were right who
spoke...
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RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 4:1 Scene 4: Boaz Arranges Redemption at the Gate.
Both verb and noun forms of “redeem” occur throughout this scene
(compare Ruth 2:20;...
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RUTH—NOTE ON RUTH 4:3 Redemption is referred to here in terms of
buying and SELLING (vv. Ruth 4:4, Ruth 4:5,...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
Ruth 4:1. THEN WENT BOAZ UP. Bethlehem situated on a hill, while the
cornfields and threshing floor would be in the valley below [cf. on
Ruth 2:4, p. 101, also p. 6.] T...
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EXPOSITION
RUTH 4:1
AND BOAZ WENT UP, TO THE GATE, AND SAT THERE. He "went up," for the
city stood, as it still stands, on a ridge (see on Ruth 1:1; Ruth
3:6). "And sat there," on one of the stones,...
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So when Boaz rose up he went to the gate of the city, he sat down
there: and, behold, the kinsman of which he was speaking came by, and
he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And so he tu...
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Ruth 4:6...
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Mar — Either because having no children of his own, he might have
one, and but one son by Ruth, who, though he should carry away his
inheritance, yet would not bear his name, but the name of Ruth's
hu...
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Isn’t the arrangement between Boaz and Ruth contrary to the law of
the Levirate marriage?
PROBLEM: Deuteronomy 25:5-10 delineates what is known as the law of
the levirate marriage. If a man dies and l...