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John Gill's Exposition on Ruth 3:12

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And now it is true, that I am thy near kinsman, etc.] Her husband and he being brothers’ sons, so own cousins: howbeit, there is a kinsman nearer than I, who was, the Jews say f61, the brother of her husband’s father, and so his uncle, which was a nearer relation than an own cousin.
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