Rut, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Now Bo`az went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and,
behold, the near kinsman of whom Bo`az spoke came by; to whom he said,
Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. He turned aside, and sat
down. {4:2} He took ten men of the Zakenim of the city, and said, Sit
you down here. They sat down. {4:3} He said to the near kinsman,
Na`omi, who has come back out of the country of Mo'av, is selling the
parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelekh's: {4:4} I thought to
disclose it to you, saying, Buy it before those who sit here, and
before the Zakenim 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
none to redeem it besides you; and I am after you. He said, I will
redeem it. {4:5} Then said Bo`az, What day you buy the field of the
hand of Na`omi, you must buy it also of Rut the Mo'avite, 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 on you; for I can't redeem
it. {4:7} Now this was [the custom] in former time in Yisra'el
concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things:
a man drew off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the
[manner of] attestation in Yisra'el. {4:8} So the near kinsman said to
Bo`az, Buy it for yourself. He drew off his shoe. {4:9} Bo`az said to
the Zakenim, and to all the people, You are witnesses this day, that I
have bought all that was Elimelekh's, and all that was Kilyon's and
Machlon's, of the hand of Na`omi. {4:10} Moreover Rut the Mo'avite,
the wife of Machlon, have I 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 Zakenim, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman who
has come into your house like Rachel and like Le'ah, which two built
the house of Yisra'el: and do you worthily in Efratah, and be famous
in Beit-Lechem: {4:12} and let your house be like the house of Peretz,
whom Tamar bore to Yehudah, of the seed which the LORD shall give you
of this young woman. {4:13} So Bo`az took Rut, 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 Na`omi, Blessed be the LORD, who
has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be
famous in Yisra'el. {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} Na`omi
took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
{4:17} The women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son
born to Na`omi; and they named him `Oved: he is the father of Yishai,
the father of David. {4:18} Now this is the history of the generations
of Peretz: Peretz became the father of Hetzron, {4:19} and Hetzron
became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of `Amminadav,
{4:20} and `Amminadav became the father of Nachshon, and Nachshon
became the father of Salmon, {4:21} and Salmon became the father of
Bo`az, and Bo`az became the father of `Oved, {4:22} and `Oved became
the father of Yishai, and Yishai became the father of David.
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