Ruth 4:3-8

New King James Version

³ Then he said to the close relative, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, sold the piece of land ^(A)which belonged to our brother Elimelech. ⁴ And I thought to ^[a]inform you, saying, ^(B)‘Buy it back ^(C)in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if ^[b]you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; ^(D)for there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.’ ”

And he said, “I will redeem it.”

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, ^(E)to ^[c]perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance.”

^6 (F)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.”

^7 (G)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.

⁸ Therefore the close relative said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.” So he took off his sandal.