Ruth 3:13
Rest thou this night: and when morning is come, if he will take thee by the right of kindred, all is well: but if he will not, I will undoubtedly take thee, as the Lord liveth: sleep till the morning.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quiesce hac nocte : et facto mane, si te voluerit propinquitatis jure retinere, bene res acta est : sin autem ille noluerit, ego te absque ulla dubitatione suscipiam, vivit Dominus. Dormi usque mane.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- αὐλίσθητι τὴν νύκτα, καὶ ἔσται τὸ πρωὶ ἐὰν ἀγχιστεύσῃ σε, ἀγαθόν, ἀγχιστευέτω· ἐὰν δὲ μὴ βούληται ἀγχιστεῦσαί σε, ἀγχιστεύσω σε ἐγώ, ζῇ Κύριος, σὺ εἶ Κύριος· κοιμήθητι ἕως πρωί.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לִ֣ינִי הַלַּ֗יְלָה וְהָיָ֤ה בַבֹּ֨קֶר֙ אִם יִגְאָלֵ֥ךְ טוֹב֙ יִגְאָ֔ל וְאִם לֹ֨א יַחְפֹּ֧ץ לְגָֽאֳלֵ֛ךְ וּגְאַלְתִּ֥יךְ אָנֹ֖כִי חַי יְהוָ֑ה שִׁכְבִ֖י עַד הַבֹּֽקֶר
Haydock's commentary
Well. Hebrew tob. (Haydock)
Hence the Jews would translate, "If Tob will redeem thee, let him." They say that Tob was the paternal uncle of Mahalon: but it is not probable that his proper name should be only here mentioned, and not [in] chap. iv. The Septuagint and Chaldean are conformable to the Vulgate and the opinion of the Jews is abandoned by most interpreters; (Calmet) and by the Protestants, "well, let him do the kinsman's part." (Haydock)
Liveth. Chaldean, "Bound by an oath, before the Lord, I say that I will fulfil my promise unto thee."
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.