Ruth — Chapter 4
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Verse 3
Booz calleth his kinsman brother, as Abraham called Lot his brother Gen. 13. being his Nephew.
Verse 7
See Deut. 25. noting here withal, that the penaltie was lesse, when an other kinsman vndertaking the mariage, the woman was preuented from complayning before the iudge.
Verse 14
Here appeareth the final cause of writing this historie, to shew the Genealogie of King Dauid from Iudas the Patriarch, of whom Christ should descend, so prophecied, Gen. 49. and shewed to be performed, Mat. 1.