Chapter 4

Boaz redeems the inheritance

4:1Meanwhile Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there: And now, the redeemer of whom Boaz mentioned passed by; He called, Come over and sit down here, So and so! And he came over and sat down.
4:2 Then Boaz took ten men of the elders of the town, and said, Ya'll sit down here. And they sat down.
4:3 He said to the redeemer, Naomi, now returned from the country of Moab, must sell the parcel of land which belonged to our brother Elimelech.
4:4 I thought I should diclose the matter to you and say, Buy it in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you are willing to redeem it, redeem it! But if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is none to redeem it but you, and I come after you. And he said, I am willing to redeem it.
4:5 Then said Boaz, When you buy the land from Naomi, and from Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the dead, to perpertuate the name of the dead upon his estate.

4:6 ¶ So when the redeemer said, I cannot redeem it myself, lest I impair my own estate. You take over my right to yourself; for I unable redeem it.
4:7 Now this was formerly done in Isreal in cases redeemtion or exchange, to confirm any transaction, one man take off his shoe, and gave it to the other. Such was the practice in Israel.
4:8 So when the redeemer said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. So he drew off his shoe.

4:9 ¶ And Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, ya'll are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from Naomi.
4:10 Also Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, so as to perpertuate the name of the dead upon his estate, that the name of the dead be not disappear from among his brethren, and from the gate of his home town. Ya'll are witnesses this day.

Boaz marries Ruth