John Gill Commentary Ruth 4:13

"So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in unto her, and Jehovah gave her conception, and she bare a son." — Ruth 4:13 (ASV)

So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife
Without any other rites or ceremonies than what are here expressed; for as yet the rites and ceremonies now in use with the Jews ^F15 , 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 bore a son ;
at the year's end, as Josephus ^F16 relates,

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FOOTNOTES:

• F15: Vid. Buxtorf. Synagog. Jud. c. 39. Leo Modena's History of the Rites of the present Jews, part 4. c. 3.
• F16: Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 9. sect. 4.)