² tn Grk “husband.”

¹ tn Grk “husband.” See following note for discussion.

² tn Heb “a wife unfaithful from her husband.”

¹ tn Or “I am your true husband.”

² tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

² tn Heb “or her husband can nullify.”

³ tn Heb “in the house of her husband” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “your husband.”

⁴ tn Heb “the dead” (so KJV, NRSV); NLT “your husbands.” This refers to their deceased husbands.

¹ sn Rebekah, unlike Sarah, was not actually her husband’s sister.

³ tn Heb “over the husband of her youth.” The death of the husband is implied by the wailing.

⁴ tn The text uses an independent nominative absolute to draw attention to her husband: “her husband, and he praises her.” Prominent as he is, her husband speaks in glowing terms of his noble wife.

¹ tn Grk “will save your husband?” The meaning is obviously that the wife would be the human agent in leading her husband to salvation.

⁴ sn The simile means that the shameful acts of such a woman will eat away her husband’s strength and influence and destroy his happiness.

¹ sn The Lord speaks here in the role of the husband of the sisters.

¹ sn I left here full. That is, with a husband and two sons.

² tn Heb “Entice your husband so that he might tell us the riddle.”

² tn Heb “and it is concealed from the eyes of her husband.”

³ sn In Jewish understanding a husband should provide food and cloth to his wife. These women are so desperate as to be willing to exempt the man from some of his traditional, fundamental duties as a husband.

² tn Grk “because more are the children of the barren one than of the one having a husband.”

³ sn In this patriarchal culture Ruth would “belong” to either her father (if unmarried) or her husband (if married).