Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Ruth 3:13

Context
NETBible

Remain here tonight. Then in the morning, if he agrees to marry you, 1  fine, 2  let him do so. 3  But if he does not want to do so, I promise, as surely as the Lord lives, to marry you. 4  Sleep here until morning.” 5 

XREF

De 25:5-9; Jud 8:19; Ru 2:20; Ru 4:5; Jer 4:2; Mt 22:24-27; 2Co 1:23; Heb 6:16

NET © Notes

tn Heb “if he redeems you”; NIV “if he wants to redeem”; NRSV “if he will act as next-of-kin for you.” The verb גֹּאֵל (goel) here refers generally to fulfilling his responsibilities as a guardian of the family interests. In this case it specifically entails marrying Ruth.

tn Or “good” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “well and good.”

tn Heb “let him redeem” (so NIV); NLT “then let him marry you.”

tn Heb “but if he does not want to redeem you, then I will redeem you, I, [as] the Lord lives” (NASB similar).

sn Sleep here. Perhaps Boaz tells her to remain at the threshing floor because he is afraid she might be hurt wandering back home in the dark. See Song 5:7 and R. L. Hubbard, Jr., Ruth (NICOT), 218.



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