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路得记 3:3

你洗個澡,抹上香膏,穿上斗篷,就下到禾場去。不過,那個人還沒有吃喝完畢,別讓他認出你來。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anointing;   Inheritance;   Ruth;   Threshing;   Thompson Chain Reference - Anointing;   Cleanliness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anointing;   Entertainments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ointments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Oil;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Anoint;   Hair;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ablutions;   Cloth, Clothing;   Cosmetics;   Economic Life;   Oil;   Ointment;   Ruth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dress;   Marriage;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Oil ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Anointing;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Anointing,;   Bath, Bathing;   Hair;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Anointing;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Baths, Bathing;   Michal;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 24;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 要 沐 浴 抹 膏 , 换 上 衣 服 , 下 到 场 上 , 却 不 要 使 那 人 认 出 你 来 。 你 等 他 吃 喝 完 了 ,

Contextual Overview

1 Then Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, said to her, "My daughter, I must find a suitable home for you, one that will be good for you. 2 Now Boaz, whose young women you worked with, is our close relative. Tonight he will be working at the threshing floor. 3 Wash yourself, put on perfume, change your clothes, and go down to the threshing floor. But don't let him know you're there until he has finished his dinner. 4 Watch him so you will know where he lies down to sleep. When he lies down, go and lift the cover off his feet and lie down. He will tell you what you should do." 5 Then Ruth answered, "I will do everything you say."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

anoint thee: 2 Samuel 14:2, Psalms 104:15, Ecclesiastes 9:8, Matthew 6:17

put thy: Esther 5:1, 1 Timothy 2:9, 1 Timothy 2:10

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 12:20 - anointed Ezekiel 23:40 - thou didst Luke 7:46 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Genesis 3:16
Then God said to the woman, "I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant, and when you give birth to children, you will have great pain. You will greatly desire your husband, but he will rule over you."
Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.
Genesis 20:6
Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, "Yes, I know you did not realize what you were doing. So I did not allow you to sin against me and touch her.
1 Chronicles 16:22
He said, "Don't touch my chosen people, and don't harm my prophets."
Job 1:11
But reach out your hand and destroy everything he has, and he will curse you to your face."
Job 2:5
But reach out your hand and destroy his flesh and bones, and he will curse you to your face."
Job 19:21
Pity me, my friends, pity me, because the hand of God has hit me.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now I will discuss the things you wrote me about. It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wash thyself, therefore,.... Thy flesh, as Ben Melech, that she might appear clean and neat, and free from all spots, and every thing that might occasion a disagreeable aspect, or an ill scent, and so be acceptable to the man proposed:

and anoint thee; not with aromatic ointments, as great personages, both men and women, used as Aben Ezra notes, but with common oil, Ruth being a poor widow that she might look sleek and smooth:

and put thy raiment upon thee; that is, her best raiment; for it cannot be supposed that she was now without clothes; or else her ornaments as the Targum; her mother-in-law advises her to put off her widow's weed, the time of mourning for her husband being perhaps at an end, and put on her ornamental dress she used to wear in her own country, and in her husband's lifetime. Jarchi interprets it of her sabbath day clothes:

and get thee down to the floor; to the threshingfloor where Boaz was winnowing, and which it seems lay lower than the city of Bethlehem:

but make not thyself known unto the man; some understand it, that she should not make herself known to any man, not to any of the servants of Boaz; who, though they knew her before, when in the habit of a gleaner, would not know her now in her best and finest clothes, unless she made herself known to them; but rather Boaz is meant, to whom it was not advisable to make herself known; and who also, for the same reason, though he might see her at supper time, might not know her because of her different dress: and the rather he is particularly intended, since it follows,

until he shall have done eating and drinking; when Naomi thought it would be the fittest time to make herself known unto him in order to gain the point in view, marriage with him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 3:3. Wash thyself, therefore — She made Ruth put on her best dress, that Boaz might, in the course of the day, be the more attracted by her person, and be the better disposed to receive her as Naomi wished.


 
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