Ruth 4:6

Overview - Ruth 4
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.

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Ruth 4:6 (King James Version)
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: 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."; 4:6

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