Ruth 4

1 And Boaz went up to the gate, and he sat there, and behold, the kinsman-redeemer was passing by, of whom Boaz had spoken. And he said, “Turn aside, sit here such a one, such a one.” And he turned aside and sat.

2 And he took ten men from the elders of the city and he said, “Sit here.” And they sat.

3 And he said to the kinsman-redeemer, “The piece of the field that belongs to our brother, to Elimelech, Naomi, the woman returning from the fields of Moab, is selling,

4 and I said, ‘I will uncover your ear,' saying, ‘Buy [it] before those sitting here and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem [it], redeem [it]. But if you will not redeem [it], tell me, that I may know; for [there is] none besides you to redeem [it], and I [am] after you." And he said, “I will redeem [it].”

5 And Boaz said, “In the day of your buying the field from the hand of Naomi, and from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, you must buy [it] to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”

6 And the kinsman-redeemer said, “I am not able to redeem [it] for myself, lest I damage my own inheritance. Redeem [it] for yourself. You [have] my redemption, for I am not able to redeem [it].”

7 And this [was] formerly in Israel concerning the redemption and concerning the exchange: To confirm every matter, a man would remove his sandal and give [it] to his companion, and this [was] the testimony in Israel.

8 And the kinsman-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy [it] for yourself.” And he removed his sandal.

9 And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You⁺ [are] witnesses this day that I have bought all that belonged to Elimelech, and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon, from the hand of Naomi.

10 And also Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired for myself for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, and the name of the dead will not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place; you⁺ [are] witnesses this day.”

11 And all the people who [were] at the gate, and the elders, said, “Witnesses! May YHWH make the woman, the one coming to your house, like Rachel and like Leah, the two who built the house of Israel; and you do virtuously in Ephrathah, and proclaim the name in Bethlehem.

12 And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, from the seed that YHWH gives to you from this young woman.”

13 And Boaz took Ruth, and she became to him for a wife, and he went in to her, and YHWH gave to her conception, and she bore a son.

14 And the women said to Naomi, “Blessed [be] YHWH, who has not let cease a kinsman-redeemer to you this day, and may his name be proclaimed in Israel.

15 And may he 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.”

16 And Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom, and she became to him a nurse.

17 And the neighbor women called for him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” And they called his name Obed. He [is] the father of Jesse, the father of David.

18 And these [are] the generations of Perez: Perez begat Hezron,

19 and Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,

20 and Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,

21 and Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

22 and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.