路得记 3:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

到了夜半，波阿斯驚醒過來，一翻身就看到一個女子躺在他的腳邊，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
到 了 夜 半 ， 那 人 忽 然 惊 醒 ， 翻 过 身 来 ， 不 料 有 女 子 躺 在 他 的 脚 下 。

Contextual Overview

⁶ So Ruth went down to the threshing floor and did all her mother-in-law told her to do. ⁷ After his evening meal, Boaz felt good and went to sleep lying beside the pile of grain. Ruth went to him quietly and lifted the cover from his feet and lay down. ⁸ About midnight Boaz was startled and rolled over. There was a woman lying near his feet! ⁹ Boaz asked, "Who are you?" She said, "I am Ruth, your servant girl. Spread your cover over me, because you are a relative who is supposed to take care of me." ¹⁰ Then Boaz said, "The Lord bless you, my daughter. This act of kindness is greater than the kindness you showed to Naomi in the beginning. You didn't look for a young man to marry, either rich or poor. ¹¹ Now, my daughter, don't be afraid. I will do everything you ask, because all the people in our town know you are a good woman. ¹² It is true that I am a relative who is to take care of you, but you have a closer relative than I. ¹³ Stay here tonight, and in the morning we will see if he will take care of you. If he decides to take care of you, that is fine. But if he refuses, I will take care of you myself, as surely as the Lord lives. So stay here until morning."

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Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, "Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:2
The woman answered the snake, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden.

Genesis 3:3
But God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch it, or you will die.'"

Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called to the man and said, "Where are you?"

Genesis 3:10
The man answered, "I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."

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 3:21
The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.

Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "Humans have become like one of us; they know good and evil. We must keep them from eating some of the fruit from the tree of life, or they will live forever."

Deuteronomy 4:33
No other people have ever heard God speak from a fire and have still lived. But you have.

Deuteronomy 5:25
But now, we will die! This great fire will burn us up, and we will die if we hear the Lord our God speak anymore.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass at midnight,.... So long Boaz slept without knowledge of any person being at his feet, and so long Ruth had lain there; but awaking, and perceiving something at his feet, which pressed them, it made him look about and feel, and so affected him,

that the man was afraid; though a man, and a man of spirit, he was afraid, a panic seized him, not knowing but it might be a spectre, a spirit, or a demon, as Jarchi; and such an instance we have in history s of an apparition, which seemed to put off clothes, and place itself in a bed where a man lay, c.

and turned himself to see who it was:

and, behold, a woman lay at his feet; which he knew by putting his hand upon her head, as Jarchi thinks, and so knew her by her headdress, or vail; or rather by her voice, as Aben Ezra, and who supposes the moon might shine, and he might be able to discern she had no beard, as well as also discover her by her clothes.

s Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 2. c. 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Turned himself - Rather, “bent forward,” so as to feel what it was which was at his feet. The same word is translated “took hold of,” in Judges 16:29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 3:8. The man was afraid, and turned himself — The verb ילפת yillapheth, which we render he turned himself, has puzzled even the Targumist, who translates the clause thus: "The man trembled, and his flesh became like a (boiled) turnip through fear." It is fully evident Boaz had no intimation of the present proceedings. To this verse the Targumist adds much; he says, "Boaz subdued his concupiscence, and acted towards her as Joseph did to the Egyptian wife of his master, and as Pelatiel, the son of Laish the pious, did to Michal, the daughter of Saul, the wife of David, who put a sword between Michal and himself, because he would not approach to her."