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Ruth 4:6

Ruth 4:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

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."

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