He said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has returned from the territory of Moab, is selling the portion of the field that belonged to our brother Elimelech.(A) I thought I should inform you: Buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do it. But if you do[a] not want to redeem it, tell me so that I will know, because there isn’t anyone other than you to redeem it, and I am next after you.”

“I want to redeem it,” he answered.

Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from Naomi, you will acquire[b] Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the deceased man, to perpetuate the man’s name on his property.”[c](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:4 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Vg; other Hb mss read if he does
  2. 4:5 Lit Naomi and from
  3. 4:5 Alt Hb tradition reads Naomi, I will have already acquired from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead man, the privilege of raising up the name of the dead man on his property

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