Ruth 4:3-5

International Standard Version

³ and Boaz^[a] addressed the related redeemer directly: “A portion of a field belonging to our relative Elimelech is up for sale by Naomi, who recently returned from the country of Moab. ⁴ So I thought to myself I ought to tell you that you must make a public purchase of this before the town residents and the elders of my people. So if you intend to act as the related redeemer, then do so.^[b] But if not, let me know, because except for you—and I after you—there is no one to fulfill the duties of a related redeemer.”

The man responded, “I will act as related redeemer.”

A Complication Arises and is Resolved

⁵ Boaz continued, “On the very day you obtain the field from Naomi,^[c] I’ll be obtaining^[d] Ruth the Moabite woman, the widow of the late heir,^[e] so the family name may be continued^[f] as an inheritance.”