路得记 4:4

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我想把這一件事告訴你，請你在眾民的長老，還有在座的各位面前，把它買下來吧。如果你肯贖就贖，假如不肯，就說出來，讓我知道；因為除了你當贖它以外，我是第一候補。”那人說：“我肯贖。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 想 当 赎 那 块 地 的 是 你 ， 其 次 是 我 ， 以 外 再 没 有 别 人 了 。 你 可 以 在 这 里 的 人 面 前 和 我 本 国 的 长 老 面 前 说 明 ， 你 若 肯 赎 就 赎 ， 若 不 肯 赎 就 告 诉 我 。 那 人 回 答 说 ： 我 肯 赎 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Boaz went to the city gate and sat there until the close relative he had mentioned passed by. Boaz called to him, "Come here, friend, and sit down." So the man came over and sat down. ² Boaz gathered ten of the elders of the city and told them, "Sit down here!" So they sat down. ³ Then Boaz said to the close relative, "Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, wants to sell the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech. ⁴ So I decided to tell you about it: If you want to buy back the land, then buy it in front of the people who are sitting here and in front of the elders of my people. But if you don't want to buy it, tell me, because you are the only one who can buy it, and I am next after you." The close relative answered, "I will buy back the land." ⁵ Then Boaz explained, "When you buy the land from Naomi, you must also marry Ruth, the Moabite, the dead man's wife. That way, the land will stay in the dead man's name." ⁶ The close relative answered, "I can't buy back the land. If I did, I might harm what I can pass on to my own sons. I cannot buy the land back, so buy it yourself." ⁷ Long ago in Israel when people traded or bought back something, one person took off his sandal and gave it to the other person. This was the proof of ownership in Israel. ⁸ So the close relative said to Boaz, "Buy the land yourself," and he took off his sandal.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I thought: Heb. I said I will reveal in thine ear

Buy it: Jeremiah 32:7-9, Jeremiah 32:25, Romans 12:17, 2 Corinthians 8:21, Philippians 4:8

before the inhabitants: Genesis 23:18, Jeremiah 32:10-12

for there is none: Leviticus 25:25-29

Reciprocal: Genesis 23:11 - in the 2 Samuel 7:27 - revealed

Cross-References

Genesis 4:16
So Cain went away from the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 4:17
He had sexual relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. At that time Cain was building a city, which he named after his son Enoch.

Genesis 4:19
Lamech married two women, Adah and Zillah.

Genesis 4:20
Adah gave birth to Jabal, who became the first person to live in tents and raise cattle.

Genesis 15:17
After the sun went down, it was very dark. Suddenly a smoking firepot and a blazing torch passed between the halves of the dead animals.

Exodus 13:12
you must give him every firstborn male. Also every firstborn male animal must be given to the Lord .

Leviticus 9:24
Fire came out from the Lord and burned up the burnt offering and fat on the altar. When the people saw this, they shouted with joy and bowed facedown on the ground.

Numbers 16:35
Then a fire came down from the Lord and destroyed the two hundred fifty men who had presented the incense.

Numbers 18:12
"And I give you all the best olive oil and all the best new wine and grain. This is what the Israelites give to me, the Lord , from the first crops they harvest.

Numbers 18:17
"But you must not make a payment for the firstborn ox or sheep or goat. Those animals are holy. Sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire. The smell is pleasing to the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I thought to advertise thee,.... To give him notice of it; or "I said" g; he said in his heart and mind, purposing to do it; or he said it to Ruth, promising her that he would do it:

saying, buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people; or before those that sat there, even the elders, as witnesses of the purchase:

if thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: for it was redeemable by a near kinsman according to the law, even when said to another, in Leviticus 25:25,

but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; what to do in this affair, whether to redeem it or not:

for there is none to redeem it besides thee, and I am after thee; he was the first, and Boaz was the next near kinsman, to whom the right of redemption belonged:

and he said, I will redeem it: he chose to make the purchase, he liked the land, which he probably full well knew, and it might lie near his own, and make a good addition to it; and as the widow was determined, and under a necessity to sell, he might expect to have it at a cheap rate; all which might induce him at once to agree to be the purchaser.

g ואני אמרתי "et ego dixi", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the margin; a phrase explained by the act of removing the end of the turban, or the hair, in order to whisper in the ear (see 1 Samuel 9:15 : 2 Samuel 7:27).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 4:4. I thought to advertise thee — Both Dr. Kennicott and Father Houbigant have noticed several corruptions in the pronouns of this and the following verses; and their criticisms have been confirmed by a great number of MSS. since collated. The text corrected reads thus: "And I said I will reveal this to thy ear, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it; but if thou wilt not redeem it, tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem it but thou, and I who am next to thee. And he said, I will redeem it. And Boaz said, In the day that thou redeemest the land from the hand of Naomi, thou wilt also acquire Ruth, the wife of the dead, that thou mayest raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance;" Ruth 4:4-5. - See Kennicott's Dissertations, vol. i., p. 449; Houbigant in loco; and the Variae Lectiones of Kennicott and De Rossi. This is Boaz's statement of the case before the kinsman, and before the people and the elders.

I will redeem it. — I will pay down the money which it is worth. He knew not of the following condition.