Ruth 4
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Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman
of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down
here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
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And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit you down here. And they
sat down.
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And he said to the near kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab,
sells the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech`s:
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And I thought to disclose it to you, saying, Buy it before them that 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 none to redeem it besides
you; and I am after you. And he said, I will redeem it.
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Then said Boaz, What day you buy the field of the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also
of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon
his inheritance.
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And the near kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance:
take you my right of redemption on you; for I cannot redeem it.
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Now this was [the custom] in former time in Israel 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 Israel.
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So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. And he drew off his shoe.
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And 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, of
the hand of Naomi.
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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 his place: you are witnesses
this day.
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And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses.
YHWH make the woman that is come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which
two did build the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous
in Bethlehem:
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and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bare to Judah, of the seed
which YHWH shall give you of this young woman.
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So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and YHWH gave her
conception, and she bare a son.
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And the women said to Naomi, Blessed be YHWH, who has not left you this day without
a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.
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And he shall 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.
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And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
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And the women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi;
and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
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Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez engendered Hezron,
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and Hezron engendered Ram, and Ram engendered Amminadab,
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and Amminadab engendered Nahshon, and Nahshon engendered Salmon,
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and Salmon engendered Boaz, and Boaz engendered Obed,
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and Obed engendered Jesse, and Jesse engendered David.