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Ruth 3:9

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Ruth: 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, Ruth 3:12, Ruth 2:20

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