John Gill's Exposition on Ruth 4:13

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife, etc.] Without any other rites or ceremonies than what are here expressed; for as yet the rites and ceremonies now in use with the Jews f78, in marriages had not obtained: and when he went in unto her; which is a modest expression of the conjugal duty performed him: the Lord gave her conception; for this is of God, let the circumstance of the person, as to age, be as it may: and she bare a son; at the year’s end, as Josephus f79 relates,

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