Ruth 3:2 Cross References - NSB

² »Boaz is of our kindred, with whose servant girls you have been. He winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

⁵ »When brothers live together and one of them dies without a son the wife of the deceased shall not marry outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall marry her and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. ⁶ »The firstborn son she bears will assume the name of the dead brother. That way his name will not be blotted out from Israel. ⁷ »If the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say: My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me. ⁸ »The elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists and says: I do not desire to take her, ⁹ his brother's wife shall must to him in the sight of the elders. She will pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. Then she will declare: It is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house. ¹⁰ »His name in Israel will be: ‘The house of him whose sandal is removed.’

¹ Boaz was a relative of Naomi. He was a wealthy man from the family of Elimelech.

⁸ Then Boaz said to Ruth: »Listen to me, my daughter; do not go to pick up the grain in another field. Do not leave here, but stay with my servant girls.

²⁰ Naomi said to her daughter-in-law: »May Jehovah bless him. The man is kind to the living and to the dead.« Then Naomi admitted to her: »The man is of our family, one of our near relatives.« ²¹ Ruth the Moabitess said: »Truly, he said to me: ‘Keep near my young men till all my grain is cut.’« ²² And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law: »It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.« ²³ So she kept near the servant girls of Boaz to gather the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain was ended. She continued living with her mother-in-law.

¹¹ Both he who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all from one. For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them »brothers«. ¹² He says: »I will declare your name to my brothers; in the middle of the congregation I will sing praises to you.« ¹³ And again: »I will put my trust in him.« And again: »Behold, the children that Jehovah has given me.« (Isaiah 8:18) ¹⁴ Since the »children« are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil.