룻기 3:13의 주석

Stay the night. Stay over [one more night] without a husband.

“As Adonai lives! Lie down until morning.” The first letters of the expression, shichvi ad haboker, “Lie down until the morning,” spells sha’ah (hour). That is, at this exact hour. The word sha’ah has the same numerical value as shleimah, perfect/whole, because a perfect child shall come forth from you. This is similar to the way Boaz prayed when he said, “May you have complete (shleimah) recompense,” (Ruth 2:12) because a shlomo, a complete child, shall go forth from you, as is said in Midrash Rabbati.⁶⁹See Pesikta D’Rav Kahanah 16:1

As Adonoy lives. She said to him, “You are dismissing me with words [i.e., excuses].” He jumped up and swore to her¹⁸‘חי ה is the Biblical form of an oath, as in I Shmuel 19:6. that he would not dismiss her with words. Some of our Rabbis said that he swore to his evil inclination, for his evil inclination was inciting him [by saying], “You are not married and she is not married; be intimate with her.” So he swore that he would not be intimate with her except with marriage.