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16And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

Ruth 4:16

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 13-22)

Here is, I. Ruth a wife. Boaz took her, with the usual solemnities, to his house, and she became his wife (Ruth 4:13), all the city, no doubt, congratulating the preferment of a virtuous woman, purely for her virtues. We have reason to think that Orpah, who returned from Naomi to her people and her gods, was never half so well preferred as Ruth was. He that forsakes all for Christ shall find more ...

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