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# Ruth 4 (New King James Version)
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Boaz Redeems Ruth
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##### Chapter 4
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###### 1 Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz had spoken came by. So Boaz said, "Come aside, friend, sit down here." So he came aside and sat down.
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###### 2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here." So they sat down.
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###### 3 Then he said to the close relative, "Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, sold the piece of land which _belonged_ to our brother Elimelech.
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###### 4 And I thought to inform you, saying, 'Buy _it_ back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you will redeem _it,_ redeem _it;_ but if you will not redeem _it, then_ tell me, that I may know; for _there is_ no one but you to redeem _it,_ and I _am_ next after you.' "
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And he said, "I will redeem _it._"
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###### 5 Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also buy _it_ from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance."
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###### 6 And the close relative said, "I cannot redeem _it_ for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. You redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem _it._"
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###### 7 Now this _was the custom_ in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging, to confirm anything: one man took off his sandal and gave _it_ to the other, and this _was_ a confirmation in Israel.
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###### 8 Therefore the close relative said to Boaz, "Buy _it_ for yourself." So he took off his sandal.
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###### 9 And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, "You _are_ witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that _was_ Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.
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###### 10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from his position at the gate. You _are_ witnesses this day."
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###### 11 And all the people who _were_ at the gate, and the elders, said, "_We are_ witnesses. The Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the house of Israel; and may you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.
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###### 12 May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring which the Lord will give you from this young woman."Descendants of Boaz and Ruth
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###### 13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and when he went in to her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.
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###### 14 Then the women said to Naomi, "Blessed _be_ the Lord, who has not left you this day without a close relative; and may his name be famous in Israel!
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###### 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."
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###### 16 Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her bosom, and became a nurse to him.
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###### 17 Also the neighbor women gave him 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.
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###### 18 Now this _is_ the genealogy of Perez: Perez begot Hezron;
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###### 19 Hezron begot Ram, and Ram begot Amminadab;
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###### 20 Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon;
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###### 21 Salmon begot Boaz, and Boaz begot Obed;
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###### 22 Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.
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