Spread thy skirt ... - The phrase indicates receiving and acknowledging her as a wife.

Skirt. —Literally wing; Heb. canaph, as in Ruth 2:12. The Targum treats this as in itself the claim to espousal …

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&c.] He spoke quick and short, as one displeased, or however surprised and frightened, ju…

What in one age or nation would be improper, is not always so in another age or another nation. As a judge of Israel, Boaz would inform Ruth what s…