Rut 3:14

Lutherbibel

Und sie schlief bis zum Morgen zu seinen Füßen. Und sie stand auf, ehe denn einer den andern erkennen konnte; und er gedachte, daß nur niemand innewerde, daß das Weib in die Tenne gekommen sei.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
So lag sie bis an den Morgen zu seinen Füßen. Dann stand sie auf, ehe noch einer den andern erkennen konnte. Er aber gedachte: Wenn nur niemand erfährt, daß eine Frau in die Tenne gekommen ist.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und sie lag zu seinen Füßen bis zum Morgen; und sie stand auf, ehe einer den anderen erkennen konnte; denn er sprach: Es werde nicht kund, daß ein Weib auf die Tenne gekommen ist!

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Let it not: Ecclesiastes 7:1, Romans 12:17, Romans 14:16, 1 Corinthians 10:32, 2 Corinthians 8:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:22, 1 Peter 2:12

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she lay at his feet until the morning,.... In the same place where she first lay herself down:

and she rose up before one could know another, because of the darkness, as the Targum, it not being yet break of day:

and he said, let it not be known that a woman came into the floor, to whom he spoke these words is not said, perhaps to Ruth, whom he might call to arise so early as she did, before one could know another, and distinguish a man from a woman; and so sent her away, and bid her be cautious, as much as in her lay, that it might not be known she had been there; for though they were both conscious of their purity and chastity, yet it became them to be careful of their good name, and to prevent scandal upon them, or hinder the nearer kinsman from doing his part, who might refuse upon hearing that Boaz and Ruth had been together; or this was said to his young men, as the Targum adds, charging them to let no one know of it; which is not so likely: it is the sense of some Jewish writers a, that Boaz said this in his heart, in an ejaculatory prayer to God, entreating that affair might be a secret, that it might not be known that a woman had been in the floor that night, lest the name of God should be blasphemed, and he and Ruth be wrongfully reproached.

a Midrash Ruth, fol. 34. 14. so some in Abendana in Miclol Yophi in loc.