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Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

路得记 4:10

我也娶了(“娶了”原文作“買了”)瑪倫的妻子摩押女子路得作妻子,使已死的人的名字留在他的產業上,免得他的名字在本族本鄉中除掉。今天你們都是見證人。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covenant;   Government;   Heir;   Inheritance;   Land;   Mahlon;   Marriage;   Redemption;   Ruth;   Wife;   Witness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Marriage;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Covenants;   Marriage;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Names;   Sandals;   Widow;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elder;   Widow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elder;   Kinsman-Redeemer;   Leadership;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   Levirate Law;   Mahlon;   Marriage;   Orpah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems;   Levirate Law, Levirate Marriage;   Mahlon;   Moabitess;   Ruth;   Witness, Martyr;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Boaz;   Chilion;   Marriage;   Sabbatical Year;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Vessel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elders;   Gate;   Mahlon ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Kinsman;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gate;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mah'lon;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Boaz;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 15;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
又 娶 了 玛 伦 的 妻 摩 押 女 子 路 得 为 妻 , 好 在 死 人 的 产 业 上 存 留 他 的 名 , 免 得 他 的 名 在 本 族 本 乡 灭 没 。 你 们 今 日 可 以 作 见 证 。

Contextual Overview

9 Then Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, "You are witnesses today. I am buying from Naomi everything that belonged to Elimelech and Kilion and Mahlon. 10 I am also taking Ruth, the Moabite who was the wife of Mahlon, as my wife. I am doing this so her dead husband's property will stay in his name and his name will not be separated from his family and his hometown. You are witnesses today." 11 So all the people and elders who were at the city gate said, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is coming into your home, like Rachel and Leah, who had many children and built up the people of Israel. May you become powerful in the district of Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem. 12 As Tamar gave birth to Judah's son Perez, may the Lord give you many children through Ruth. May your family be great like his."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

have I: Genesis 29:18, Genesis 29:19, Genesis 29:27, Proverbs 18:22, Proverbs 19:14, Proverbs 31:10, Proverbs 31:11, Hosea 3:2, Hosea 12:12, Ephesians 5:25

the name: Deuteronomy 25:6, Joshua 7:9, Psalms 34:16, Psalms 109:15, Isaiah 48:19, Zechariah 13:2

ye are witnesses: Isaiah 8:2, Isaiah 8:3, Malachi 2:14, Hebrews 13:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:37 - Moabites Genesis 29:22 - and made Genesis 38:9 - General Deuteronomy 23:3 - Ammonite Deuteronomy 25:9 - So shall 1 Samuel 22:3 - the king John 4:18 - is not

Cross-References

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 4:9
Later, the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" Cain answered, "I don't know. Is it my job to take care of my brother?"
Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.
Genesis 9:5
I will demand blood for life. I will demand the life of any animal that kills a person, and I will demand the life of anyone who takes another person's life.
Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said, "I have heard many complaints against the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. They are very evil.
Exodus 3:7
The Lord said, "I have seen the troubles my people have suffered in Egypt, and I have heard their cries when the Egyptian slave masters hurt them. I am concerned about their pain,
Numbers 35:33
"‘Don't let murder spoil your land. The only way to remove the sin of killing an innocent person is for the murderer to be put to death.
Joshua 7:19
Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, tell the truth. Confess to the Lord , the God of Israel. Tell me what you did, and don't try to hide anything from me."
2 Kings 9:26
‘Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and his sons, says the Lord , so I will punish Ahab in his field, says the Lord .' Take Joram's body and throw it into the field, as the Lord has said."
Job 16:18
"Earth, please do not cover up my blood. Don't let my cry ever stop being heard!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife,.... Which was the condition on which the purchase of the land was, that whoever bought that should take her for his wife; nor did Boaz do evil in marrying her, though a Moabitess. Moab was not one of the nations with whom marriage was forbidden; and though it was a Heathenish and idolatrous nation, and so on that account it was not fit and proper to marry with such, yet Ruth was become a proselytess; nor was this contrary to the law in Deuteronomy 23:3, since, according to the sense the Jews give of it, it respects men, and not women, and such men who otherwise were capable of bearing offices in the congregation;

"an Ammonite, and a Moabite (they say n) are forbidden, and their prohibition is a perpetual one, but their women are free immediately:''

to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance; the name of Mahlon, Ruth's former husband, to whom the inheritance would have come had he lived; the raising up of his name is not upon a son of hers by Boaz, for her firstborn was called Obed, and not Mahlon, and is always spoken of as the son of Boaz, and not of Mahlon, but upon his inheritance, having bought his wife along with it, which the register of the purchase would show, and so cause his name to be remembered; and, as Jarchi says, when Ruth went in and out upon the estate or inheritance, they would say, this was the wife of Mahlon, and so through her his name would be made mention of:

that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of this place; might not be quite forgotten both in the city and in the court, and be remembered no more:

ye are witnesses this day; this is repeated, that they might answer to it, as they do in the next verse.

n Misn. Yebamot, c. 8. sect. 3.


 
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