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“Who are you?” he asked. She replied, “I am your servant Ruth. Spread the wing of your cloak[a] over your servant, for you are a redeemer.”

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Footnotes

  1. 3:9 Spread the wing of your cloak: Ez 16:8 makes it clear that this is a request for marriage. Ruth connects it to “redeemer” responsibility. A wordplay on “wing” links what Boaz is asked to do to what he has asked God to do for Ruth in 2:12.

37 He will say, Where are their gods,(A)
    the rock in whom they took refuge,

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He will shelter you with his pinions,
    and under his wings you may take refuge;(A)
    his faithfulness is a protecting shield.

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