Ruth 4

¹And Boaz went up to the gate, and he sat there, and behold, the kinsman-redeemer was passing by, of whom Boaz had spoken. And he said, “Turn aside, sit here such a one, such a one.” And he turned aside and sat.

²And he took ten men from the elders of the city and he said, “Sit here.” And they sat.

³And he said to the kinsman-redeemer, “The piece of the field that belongs to our brother, to Elimelech, Naomi, the woman returning from the fields of Moab, is selling,

⁴and I said, ‘I will uncover your ear,' saying, ‘Buy it before those sitting here and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not redeem it, tell me, that I may know; for there is none besides you to redeem it, and I am after you." And he said, “I will redeem it.”

⁵And Boaz said, “In the day of your buying the field from the hand of Naomi, and from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, you must buy it to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”

⁶And the kinsman-redeemer said, “I am not able to redeem it for myself, lest I damage my own inheritance. Redeem it for yourself. You have my redemption, for I am not able to redeem it.”

⁷And this was formerly in Israel concerning the redemption and concerning the exchange: To confirm every matter, a man would remove his sandal and give it to his companion, and this was the testimony in Israel.

⁸And the kinsman-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.” And he removed his sandal.

⁹And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that belonged to Elimelech, and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon, from the hand of Naomi.

¹⁰And also Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired for myself for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, and the name of the dead will not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place; you are witnesses this day.”

¹¹And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “Witnesses! May YHWH make the woman, the one coming to your house, like Rachel and like Leah, the two who built the house of Israel; and you do virtuously in Ephrathah, and proclaim the name in Bethlehem.

¹²And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, from the seed that YHWH gives to you from this young woman.”

¹³And Boaz took Ruth, and she became to him for a wife, and he went in to her, and YHWH gave to her conception, and she bore a son.

¹⁴And the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be YHWH, who has not let cease a kinsman-redeemer to you this day, and may his name be proclaimed in Israel.

¹⁵And may he be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age. For your daughter-in-law who loves you—who is better to you than seven sons—has borne him.”

¹⁶And Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom, and she became to him a nurse.

¹⁷And the neighbor women called for him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” And they called his name Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

¹⁸And these are the generations of Perez: Perez begat Hezron,

¹⁹and Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,

²⁰and Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,

²¹and Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

²²and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.