Ruth 3:14
And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.
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Gill's Exposition
And she lay at his feet until the morning,.... In the same place where she first lay herself down:
and she rose up before one could know another, because of the darkness, as the Targum, it not being…
We are here told, I. How Ruth was dismissed by Boaz. It would not have been safe for her to go home in the dead of the night; therefore she lay at his feet (not by his side) until morning. But as soon…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
For he said i.e. to himself, he thought; -if I should say" in Rth 1:12 has the same meaning. His thought shewed consideration and good sense.
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