Ruth 3:12
Neither do I deny myself to be near of kin, but there is another nearer than I.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nec abnuo me propinquum, sed est alius me propinquior.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ὅτι ἀληθῶς ἀγχιστεὺς ἐγώ εἰμι· καί γέ ἐστιν ἀγχιστεὺς ἐγγίων ὑπὲρ ἐμέ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְעַתָּה֙ כִּ֣י אָמְנָ֔ם כִּ֥י אם גֹאֵ֖ל אָנֹ֑כִי וְגַ֛ם יֵ֥שׁ גֹּאֵ֖ל קָר֥וֹב מִמֶּֽנִּי
Haydock's commentary
Than I. The Jews think that he was brother of Elimelech, while Booz was only his nephew. But they might be in the same degree; the other being only older. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.