⁵ Then Boaz said, “On the day you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also ^[a]acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the one who had died, in order ^(A)to raise up the name of the one who had died, on behalf of his inheritance.”

¹⁰ And also, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the one who had died, on behalf of his inheritance, so ^(A)that the name of the one who had died will not be cut off from his brothers or from the gate of his birth place; you are witnesses today.”