14And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 14-18)We are here told, I. How Ruth was dismissed by Boaz. It would not have been safe for her to go home in the dead of the night; therefore she lay at his feet (not by his side) until morning . But as soon as ever the day broke, that she had light to go home by, she got away, before one could know another , that, if she were seen, yet she might not be known to be abroad so unseasonably. She was not sh...
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