A Wife Taken and Salvation Given

Of Boaz we read in Ruth 4:13 that he "took Ruth, and she was his wife." And it is interesting to note the fact that the Hebrew word here translated as "take" is in our King James Version of the Bible translated as "take away" no less than 793 times. That is about four times as often as it is translated simply as take, receive, fetch, bring, or several other words which are used once or twice in a slightly different way. It certainly cannot be denied that Boaz took Ruth away from this nameless...