page_title: Ruth 3
section_title: Verse 13
hierarchical_section_title: Ruth 3 / Verse 13
caption_attribution_description: العربية: 3 change me! الكتاب المقدس التوضيح من الكتاب من الفصل Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎: Біблійная ілюстрацыя да Кнігі Рут, разьдзел 3 Deutsch: Biblische Darstellung Buch change me! Kapitel 3 Ελληνικά: Βιβλική εικονογράφηση του βιβλίου της change me! Κεφάλαιο 3 English: Biblical illustration of Book of Ruth Chapter 3 Español: Ilustración bíblica de libro del change me!, capítulo 3 Français&#160;: Illustration biblique du livre de la Ruth chapitre 3 עברית: 3 האיור המקראי של change me! פרק हिन्दी: {{{hi}}} अध्याय change me! की पुस्तक की बाइबिल चित्रण Bahasa Indonesia: Ilustrasi Alkitab dari Kitab Rut pasal 3 Italiano: Illustrazione biblica del libro della change me! Capitolo 3 日本語: change me!3章の本の聖書の実例 Jawa: Ilustrasi Alkitab saking Kitab Rut pasal 3 한국어: change me! 3 장 장부의 성경 그림 Bahasa Melayu: Ilustrasi Alkitab dari Kitab Rut pasal 3 Nederlands: Bijbelse illustratie van change me! hoofdstuk 3 Português: Ilustração bíblica do Livro de change me!, capítulo 3 Русский: Библейские иллюстрации Книга Руфи Глава 3 中文: 圣经change me!第3章的书籍插图
context_page_description: Ruth 3 is the third chapter of the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, part of the Ketuvim. This chapter contains the story of how on Naomi's advice, Ruth slept at Boaz's feet, Ruth 3:1-7; Boaz commends what she had done, and acknowledges the right of a kinsman; tells her there was a nearer kinsman, to whom he would offer her, and if that man refuses, Boaz would redeem her, Ruth 3:8-13; Boaz sends her away with six measures of barley, Ruth 3:14-18.
context_section_description: "Stay this night" (KJV: "Tarry this night"): or "lodge here tonight", and Ruth did stay, knowing Boaz's honorable intention for her own safety and honor, that she might not be exposed to danger or disgrace by returning home in the middle of the night. The Hebrew letter נ "nun" in the word ליני lî-nî for "stay" or "tarry" is larger than normal in the Hebrew text, which may be intended to attract the attention of the reader of its singularity, that a widow should stay with a man without any "diminution of her chastity", according to Buxtorf. Lightfoot observes, that there is a special mark over a word in the story of Lot's eldest daughter lying with her father (a dot above the letter י "yod" of last Hebrew word) in Genesis 19:33 and then Lot's eldest daughter gave birth to Moab, the progenitor of Ruth's tribe, seemingly having connection to a special mark on this word here, in the story of Ruth going to Boaz his bed, together to point at the great providence of God in bringing light out of darkness: Ruth, a (fore)mother of Jesus Christ, out of the incest of Lot.
  "Good; let him do it" (KJV: "well, let him do the kinsman's part"): If that kinsman were marrying Ruth, and redeeming her husband's estate, it would be all very well and right according to law, including for Ruth (as Aben Ezra and Abendana interpret it),  seeing that kinsman was apparently also a very respectable man. The same writers (and others) observe, that the word "Tob", translated "well", is the name of the kinsman, derived from 'Tobias', thus R. Joshuah says, that Salmon (the father of Boaz), Elimelech (the father of Ruth's husband), and Tob (this near kinsman), were brothers.
  "As the Lord lives!": as an oath that he would marry her, and redeem the inheritance, if the other kinsman would not, as also stated in the Targum, "I say with an oath before the Lord, that as I have spoken unto thee, so will I do."
caption: Boaz and Ruth. Bible Illustrations on Book of Ruth Chapter 3 by Jim Padgett, courtesy of Sweet Publishing (1984).
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