²⁰ ‘The Lord bless him!’ Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. ‘He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.’ She added, ‘That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.^[a]’

¹² Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I.