Ruth 4:6

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I cannot.

The Targum seems to give the proper sense of this passage:

"I cannot redeem it, because I have a wife already; and it is not fit for me to bring another into my house, lest brawling and contention arise in it; and lest I hurt my own inheritance.

Do thou redeem it, for thou has no wife; which hinders me from redeeming it."

Ru 4:6