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9 And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.
10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance, athat the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from1 his position at the gate. You are witnesses this day.”  
11 And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. aThe Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who bbuilt the house of Israel; and may you prosper in cEphrathah and be famous in dBethlehem.  
12 May your house be like the house of aPerez, bwhom Tamar bore to Judah, because of cthe offspring which the Lord will give you from this young woman.”  

Descendants of Boaz and Ruth

13 So Boaz atook Ruth and she became his wife; and when he went in to her, bthe Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.  
14 Then athe women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a1 close relative; and may his name be famous in Israel!  
15 And may he be to you a restorer of life and a1 nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is abetter to you than seven sons, has borne him.”  
16 Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her bosom, and became a nurse to him.
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Ruth 4:11

We are witnesses - It is not very likely that any writing was drawn up. There was an appeal made to the people then present, whether they had seen and understood the transaction; who answered, We have witnessed it. If any minutes of court were kept, then the transaction was entered probably in some such words as these: "On ___ day of ____, Boaz bought the land of Elimelech from Naomi his widow, and took Ruth, her daughter-in-law, to wife; ____, who had the nearest right, refusing to buy the land on the conditions then proposed."

The Lord make this woman - like Rachel and like Leah - May thy family be increased by her means, as the tribes were formed by means of Rachel and Leah, wives of the patriarch Jacob!

Which two did build the house of Israel - We have already seen that ben , a son, comes from the root banah , he built; and hence eben , a stone, because as a house is built of stones, so is a family of children. There is a similar figure in Plautus, Mostell. Act i., sec. 2, ver. 37.

- Nunc etiam volo Dicere,

ut homines aedium esse similes arbitremini.

Primum dum parentes fabri liberum sunt,

Et fundamentum liberorum substruunt .

\ri720 "I would also observe, that ye men are similar to houses; ye parents are the fabricators of the children, and they are the foundation of the building."


 
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