Ruth 4:6
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| 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