And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the [a]assistants, and before the Elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, tell me: for I know that there is none [b]besides thee to redeem it, and I am after thee. Then he answered, I will redeem it.

Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must also buy it of Ruth the Moabitess the wife of the dead, to stir up the name of the dead, upon his [c]inheritance.

And the kinsman answered, I cannot redeem it, lest I destroy mine own inheritance: redeem my right to thee, for I can not redeem it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 4:4 Or, inhabitants.
  2. Ruth 4:4 For thou art the next of the kin.
  3. Ruth 4:5 That his inheritance might bear his name that is dead.

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