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[a]Now! Is not Boaz,(A) whose young women you were working with, a relative of ours? This very night he will be winnowing barley at the threshing floor.

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  1. 3:2 Ruth’s determined action to bring relief to Naomi’s and her own circumstances now impels Naomi to move, using means available in Israelite custom which no one in the story has up to this point brought into play.

Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative(A) of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.(B)

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12 (A)Now, I am in fact a redeemer, but there is another redeemer closer than I.[a]

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  1. 3:12 Another redeemer closer than I: Boaz knows of a closer relative who would have a prior right to buy the field and marry Ruth.

12 Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family,(A) there is another who is more closely related than(B) I.

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(A)Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse,

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Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,(A)

Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,

Obed the father of Jesse,

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