Ruth 4:6-8

Good News Translation

⁶ The man answered, “In that case I will give up my right to buy the field, because it would mean that my own children would not inherit it. You buy it; I would rather not.”

^7 (A)Now in those days, to settle a sale or an exchange of property, it was the custom for the seller to take off his sandal and give it to the buyer. In this way the Israelites showed that the matter was settled.

⁸ So when the man said to Boaz, “You buy it,” he took off his sandal and gave it to Boaz.^[a]