. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. et: and when he awoke at midnight, and withmuch astonishment, asked who she was, she answered, I am Ruth, thy handmaid: taketherefore thy handmaid under thy protection, for thou art a near kinsman. Those who,measuring all things by their own small and current standards, regard as improper or inde-licate this procedure of one Who feared no evil, for she knew no siii, need only hear the answer of Boaz to be satisfied. Blessed be thou, of Jehovah, my And now, my daughter, fear not: for al
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. et: and when he awoke at midnight, and withmuch astonishment, asked who she was, she answered, I am Ruth, thy handmaid: taketherefore thy handmaid under thy protection, for thou art a near kinsman. Those who,measuring all things by their own small and current standards, regard as improper or inde-licate this procedure of one Who feared no evil, for she knew no siii, need only hear the answer of Boaz to be satisfied. Blessed be thou, of Jehovah, my And now, my daughter, fear not: for all my fellow-citizens do know that thou art avirtuous woman. He added, however, that there was a person in the town more nearlyrelated to her deceased husband ; and on him properly the levirate duty devolved : but if hedeclined it, then it fell to himself, and he would certainly undertake it. It being too late forRuth to return home, Boaz desired her to remain in the threshing-floor for the night. Earlyin the morning he dismissed her, after having filled her veil with corn to take to [Back Veil.] In those times, and long after, it was customary to transact all business of a public natureand to administer justice in the gates. When there was little use of written documents, this gaveto every transaction the binding obligation which the presence of many witnesses involved ; andthus also justice was easily and speedily administered among the people, at the hours whenthey passed to and fro between the fields and the city. And such hours were, for thisreason, those at which the judges and elders gave their attendance in the gates. Boaz therefore went up to the gate ; and requested ten of the elders, there present, to sit down with him as witnesses of what was to take place. When the near kinsman passed by, he called him to sit down with them. He then questioned him as to his willingness to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance. This he was not willing to do, lest
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