Ruth 3:2 Cross References - CLV

² Now behold, there is our near relative Boaz with whose maidens you have been. Behold, he will be winnowing barley on the threshing site tonight.

⁵ In case brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and he has no son, the wife of the dead one shall not come to the outside, to an alien man. Her brother-in-law shall come to her, and he will take her to himself as his wife and perform the levirate for her. ⁶ Then it will come to be:the firstborn whom she bears shall carry on the name of his father's dead brother so that his name may not be wiped out from Israel. ⁷ But should the man not be inclined to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law will go up to the elders at the gate and say:My brother-in-law refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the levirate for me. ⁸ Then the elders of his city will call to him and speak to him. But if he persists and says:I am not inclined to take her, ⁹ then his sister-in-law will come close to him before the eyes of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face and answer and say:Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house. ¹⁰ And his name will be called in Israel, House of the Pulled-off Sandal.

¹ Naomi had a near relative of her husband, a man who was a master of valor, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

⁸ Boaz said to Ruth, Behold, hearken, my daughter. You must not go to glean in another field; also do not cross over from this one. And thus shall you follow hard behind my maidens.

²⁰ Naomi replied to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he by Yahweh, Who has not forsaken His benignity toward the living and the dead. And Naomi explained to her, This man is a near relative of ours; he is one of our kinsmen redeemers. ²¹ Then Ruth the Moabite said to her husband's mother, He even told me, You shall follow hard behind the young workers who are mine until they have finished all the harvest that I have. ²² Naomi replied to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is best, my daughter, that you go forth with his maidens, so that the lads in another field may not touch on you. ²³ So she followed hard behind the maidens of Boaz, and gleaned until the barley harvest and the wheat harvest were finished. And she dwelt with her husband's mother.

¹¹ For both He Who is hallowing and those who are being hallowed are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to be calling them brethren, ¹² saying, I shall be reporting Thy name to My brethren, In the midst of the ecclesia shall I be singing hymns to Thee." ¹³ And again, I shall have confidence in Him. And again, Lo! I and the little children who are given Me by God!" ¹⁴ Since, then, the little children have participated in blood and flesh, He also was very nigh by partaking of the same, that, through death, He should be discarding him who has the might of death, that is, the Adversary,