Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ruth 3:9

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9. I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman —She had already drawn part of the mantle over her; and she asked him now to do it, that the act might become his own. To spread a skirt over one is, in the East, a symbolical action denoting protection. To this day in many parts of the East, to say of anyone that he put his skirt over a woman, is synonymous with saying that he married her; and at all the marriages of the modern Jews and Hindus, one part of the ceremony is for the bridegroom to put a silken or cotton cloak around his bride. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-15" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-rut-3-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/rut-3-9

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological