OLD TESTAMENT

Ruth 4:9

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Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

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Verse 9. Chelion. As Orpha, his widow, took no care to comply with the law, all his possessions devolved on his brother’s posterity. Menochius.—It was presumed that she would marry some Moabite. Calmet.

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