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4Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat there. When the kinsman-redeemer he had mentioned came along, Boaz said, "Come over here, my friend, and sit down." So he went over and sat down.H5927H1162H5927H8179H3427H1350H1162H1696H5674H559H1945H6423H492H5493H3427H5493H34272Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, "Sit here," and they did so.H3947H6235H582H2205H5892H559H3427H34273Then he said to the kinsman-redeemer, "Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.H559H1350H5281H7725H7704H4124H4376H2513H7704H251H4584I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line." "I will redeem it," he said.H559H1540H241H559H7069H3427H2205H5971H1350H1350H1350H5046H3045H1350H2108H310H559H13505Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the land from Naomi and from Ruth the Moabitess, you acquire the dead man's widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property."H559H1162H3117H7069H7704H3027H5281H7069H7327H4125H802H4191H6965H8034H4191H51596At this, the kinsman-redeemer said, "Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it."H1350H559H3201H1350H7843H5159H1350H1353H3201H13507(Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)H6440H3478H1353H8545H6965H1697H376H8025H5275H5414H7453H8584H34788So the kinsman-redeemer said to Boaz, "Buy it yourself." And he removed his sandal.H1350H559H1162H7069H8025H52759Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, "Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelech, Kilion and Mahlon.H1162H559H2205H5971H5707H3117H7069H458H3630H4248H3027H528110I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon's widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from the town records. Today you are witnesses!"H7327H4125H802H4248H7069H802H6965H8034H4191H5159H8034H4191H3772H5973H251H8179H4725H5707H311711Then the elders and all those at the gate said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.H5971H8179H2205H559H5707H3068H5414H802H935H1004H7354H3812H8147H1129H1004H3478H6213H2428H672H7121H8034H103512Through the offspring the LORD gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah."H1004H1004H6557H8559H3205H3063H2233H3068H5414H529113So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. Then he went to her, and the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.H1162H3947H7327H802H935H3068H5414H2032H3205H112114The women said to Naomi: "Praise be to the LORD, who this day has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel!H802H559H5281H1288H3068H7673H3117H1350H8034H7121H347815He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth."H7725H5315H3557H7872H3618H157H2896H7651H1121H320516Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap and cared for him.H5281H3947H3206H7896H2436H53917The women living there said, "Naomi has a son." And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.H7934H7121H8034H559H1121H3205H5281H7121H8034H5744H1H3448H1H173218This, then, is the family line of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,H8435H6557H6557H3205H269619Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab,H2696H3205H7410H7410H3205H599220Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon,H5992H3205H5177H5177H3205H800921Salmon the father of Boaz, Boaz the father of Obed,H8012H3205H1162H1162H3205H574422Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David.H5744H3205H3448H3448H3205H1732
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