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18Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.

Ruth 3:18

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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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