Ruth 4:1-6
Ruth Becomes Boaz’ Wife
4Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there, and behold, athe kinsman redeemer of whom Boaz spoke was passing by, so he said, “Turn aside, 1my fellow, sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down. 2Then he took ten men of the aelders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down. 3Then he said to the kinsman redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from the fields of Moab, has to sell the portion of the field awhich belonged to our brother Elimelech. 4“So I thought to uncover this matter in your hearing, saying, ‘aAcquire it before those who are sitting here and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if no one redeems it, tell me that I may know; for bthere is no one but you to redeem it, and I am after you.’” And he said, “I will redeem it.” 5Then Boaz said, “On the day you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also 1acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the one who had died, in order ato raise up the name of the one who had died, on behalf of his inheritance.” 6aSo the kinsman redeemer 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.”