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If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it; but if it will not be redeemed, 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.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then said Boaz: ‘What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi—hast thou also bought of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the near kinsman said: ‘I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance; take thou my right of redemption on thee; for I cannot redeem it.’— <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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 neighbour; and this was the attestation in Israel.— <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So the near kinsman said unto Boaz: ‘Buy it for thyself.’ And he drew off his shoe. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I acquired 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.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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 thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel; and do thou worthily in Ephrath, and be famous in Beth-lehem; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in unto her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the women said unto Naomi: ‘Blessed be the LORD, who hath not left thee this day without a near kinsman, and let his name be famous in Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age; for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez begot Hezron; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and Hezron begot Ram, and Ram begot Amminadab; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>Salmon; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and Salmon begot Boaz, and Boaz begot Obed; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} Heb. 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