RU-4:1  Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there:

and, behold,

the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho,

such a one!

turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

RU-4:2  And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said,

Sit ye down

here. And they sat down.

RU-4:3  And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again

out of the

country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which [was] our

brother

Elimelech's:

RU-4:4  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] beside thee; and I [am] after

thee. And he

said, I will redeem [it].

RU-4:5  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 his inheritance.

RU-4:6  And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem [it] for myself,

lest I mar mine

own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot

redeem [it].

RU-4:7  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] a

testimony in

Israel.

RU-4:8  Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy [it] for thee.

So he drew

off his shoe.

RU-4:9  And Boaz said unto the elders, and [unto] all the people,

 Ye [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.

RU-4:10  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

his place: ye [are] witnesses this day.

RU-4:11  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 in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

RU-4:12  And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom

Tamar bare unto

Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young

woman.

RU-4:13  So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he

went in unto

her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.

RU-4:14  And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed [be] the LORD,

which hath not

left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be

famous in Israel.

RU-4:15  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 than seven sons, hath borne him.

RU-4:16  And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and

became nurse

unto it.

RU-4:17  And the women her neighbours 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.

RU-4:18  Now these [are] the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat

Hezron,

RU-4:19  And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,

RU-4:20  And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,

RU-4:21  And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

RU-4:22  And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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