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¹ Then went Boaz up to theWhich was the place of judgment.gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said,The Hebrews here use two words which have no proper meaning, but serve to denote a certain person, as we would say, «Ho, so-and-so».Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

² Then he tooke ten men of the Elders of the citie, and sayd, Sit ye downe here; they sate downe.

³ And he said vnto ye kinsman, Naomi, that is come againe out of ye countrey of Moab, wil sell a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelechs.

⁴ And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy [it] before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem [it], redeem [it]: but if thou wilt not redeem [it, then] tell me, that I may know: for [there is] none to redeem [it]For you are the next of kin.beside thee; and I [am] after thee. And he said, I will redeem [it].

⁵ Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy [it] also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon hisThat his inheritance might bear his name that is dead.inheritance.

⁶ And the kinsman answered, I can not redeeme it, lest I destroy mine owne inheritance: redeeme my right to thee, for I can not redeeme it.

⁷ Now this [was the manner] in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave [it] to his neighbour: and this [was] aThat he had resigned his right, (Deu_25:9).testimony in Israel.

⁸ Therefore the kinsman sayd to Boas, Buy it for thee: and he drew off his shooe.

⁹ And Boaz sayd vnto the Elders & vnto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I haue bought all that was Elimelechs, and all that was Chilions and Mahlons, of the hand of Naomi.

¹⁰ Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of hisOr, of the city where he remained.place: ye [are] witnesses this day.

¹¹ And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders, said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily inEphratah and Bethlehem are both one.Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

¹² And that thine house be like the house of Pharez ( whom Thamar bare vnto Iudah) of the seede which the Lord shall giue thee of this yong woman.

¹³ So Boaz tooke Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in vnto her, the Lorde gaue that she conceiued, and bare a sonne.

¹⁴ And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed [be] the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, thatHe shall leave continual posterity.his name may be famous in Israel.

¹⁵ And he shall be unto thee a restorer of [thy] life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee thanMeaning, many sons.seven sons, hath born him.

¹⁶ And Naomi tooke the childe, and layde it in her lap, and became nource vnto it.

¹⁷ And the women her neighbours gaue it a name, saying, There is a childe borne to Naomi, and called the name thereof Obed: the same was the father of Ishai, the father of Dauid.

¹⁸ Now these [are] the generations ofThis genealogy is brought in to prove that David by succession came from the house of Judah.Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

¹⁹ And Hezron begate Ram, & Ram begate Amminadab,

²⁰ And Amminadab begate Nahshon, and Nahshon begate Salmah,

²¹ And Salmon begate Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

²² And Obed begate Ishai, and Ishai begate Dauid.