Ruth 4:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ But the kinsman said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. You can exercise my right of next of kin, for I cannot redeem it.”

⁷ Now in those days in Israel it was the custom that when there was an act of redemption or of the exchange of lands, one man would take off his sandal and give it to the other in order to confirm the action. This was an act of confirming actions in Israel. ⁸ So the kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” and he took off his sandal.