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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Ruth 4:6

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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I cannot: The Targum seems to give the proper sense of this passage: "I cannot redeem it, because I have a wife already; and it is not fit for me to bring another into my house, lest brawling and contention arise in it; and lest I hurt my own inheritance. Do thou redeem it, for thou has no wife; which hinders me from redeeming it." Rut 4:6 Ruth 4:7
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