Ruth, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the
near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, "Come over
here, friend, and sit down!" He turned aside, and sat down. {4:2} He
took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here."
They sat down. {4:3} He said to the near kinsman, "Naomi, who has come
back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which
was our brother Elimelech's. {4:4} I thought to disclose it to you,
saying, 'Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my
people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem
it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it
besides you; and I am after you."
He said, "I will redeem it."
{4:5} Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of
Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the
dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance."
{4:6} The near kinsman said, "I can't redeem it for myself, lest I
mar my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for
I can't redeem it."
{4:7} Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning
redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took
off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of
attestation in Israel. {4:8} So the near kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it
for yourself." He took off his shoe.
{4:9} Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, "You are
witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and
all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi. {4:10}
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to
be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that
the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from
the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day."
{4:11} All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said,
"We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your
house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel;
and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
{4:12} Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to
Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give you of this young woman."
{4:13} So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to
her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son. {4:14} The
women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this
day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.
{4:15} He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your
old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you
than seven sons, has borne him." {4:16} Naomi took the child, and laid
it in her bosom, and became nurse to it. {4:17} The women, her
neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "There is a son born to Naomi";
and they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of
David.
{4:18} Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez
became the father of Hezron, {4:19} and Hezron became the father of
Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab, {4:20} and Amminadab
became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,
{4:21} and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the
father of Obed, {4:22} and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse
became the father of David.
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