Ruth 3:9
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| Overview - Ruth 3 | |
| 1 | By Naomi's instruction. |
| 5 | Ruth lies at Boaz's feet. |
| 8 | Boaz acknowledges the right of a kinsman. |
| 14 | He sends her away with six measures of barley. |
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Ruth 3:9 (King James Version)
And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.
- Ruth
- 2:10-13 1 Samuel 25:41 ; Luke 14:11
- spread 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. Ezekiel 16:8
- a near kinsman
- or, one that has right to redeem.
- 12 ; 2:20