CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Ruth 4 NIV ESV Parallel</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newp.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ruth/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../../topmenuchap/ruth/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/ruth/">Ruth</a> > Ruth 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ruth/3.shtml" title="Ruth 3">◄</a> Ruth 4 <a href="../1_samuel/1.shtml" title="1 Samuel 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">NIV Parallel ESV <a href="../../bsb/ruth/4.shtml">[BSB</a> <a href="../../csb/ruth/4.shtml">CSB</a> <a href="../../esv/ruth/4.shtml">ESV</a> <a href="../../hcs/ruth/4.shtml">HCS</a> <a href="../../kjv/ruth/4.shtml">KJV</a> <a href="../../isv/ruth/4.shtml">ISV</a> <a href="../../nas/ruth/4.shtml">NAS</a> <a href="../../net/ruth/4.shtml">NET</a> <a href="../../niv/ruth/4.shtml">NIV</a> <a href="../../nlt/ruth/4.shtml">NLT</a> <a href="../../heb/ruth/4.shtml">HEB]</a></div><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="50%">New International Version</td><td class="version" width="50%">English Standard Version</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, "Come over here, my friend, and sit down." So he went over and sat down.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, “Turn aside, friend; sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, "Sit here," and they did so.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, "Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then he said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I 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.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So I thought I would tell you of it and say, ‘Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you.” And he said, “I will redeem it.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man's widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">At this, the guardian-redeemer said, "Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">(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.)<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, "Buy it yourself." And he removed his sandal.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So when the redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” he drew off his sandal.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, "Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, 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 his hometown. Today you are witnesses!"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the elders and all the people 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 family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Through the offspring the LORD gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the LORD will give you by this young woman.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The women said to Naomi: "Praise be to the LORD, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He 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."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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 more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The women living there said, "Naomi has a son!" And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This, then, is the family line of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Hezron fathered Ram, Ram fathered Amminadab,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Amminadab fathered Nahshon, Nahshon fathered Salmon,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Salmon the father of Boaz, Boaz the father of Obed,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Salmon fathered Boaz, Boaz fathered Obed,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href="//niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="//biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="//www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. All rights reserved.</td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ruth/3.shtml" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ruth 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ruth 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_samuel/1.shtml" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Samuel 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /> <div align="center"> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>