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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Ruth 1:11

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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are there: This alludes to the custom that when a married brother died, without leaving posterity, his brother should take his widow; and the children of such marriages were accounted those of the deceased brother. This address of Naomi to her daughter-in-law is exceedingly tender, persuasive, and affecting. that they: Gen 38:11; Deu 25:5 Ruth 1:12
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