Ruth 4:1-6

Evangelical Heritage Version

Boaz and Ruth Marry and Have a Son

4 Boaz went up to the city gate, and he sat down there. Just then, the redeemer about whom Boaz had spoken was passing by. Boaz said, “Come over here! Sit down, my dear friend!”^[a] So he came over and sat down.

² Then Boaz chose ten men from the elders of the town, and he said, “Sit down here!” They too sat down.

³ Then he said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who returned from the territory of Moab, is putting up for sale^[b] the piece of land that belongs to our brother Elimelek. ⁴ On my part, I thought I should call it to your attention so that you may acquire it in the presence of these residents and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you wish to redeem it, redeem it. But if you do not wish to redeem it, declare that to me. I know that there is no one ahead of you in the right to redeem, but I am right after you.”

So the man said, “Yes, I will redeem it.”

⁵ Then Boaz said, “On the day that you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi, I will acquire^[c] from Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the deceased, the means to perpetuate the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”

⁶ Then the redeemer said, “I am not able to redeem it for myself, or I would ruin my inheritance. You acquire for yourself my right of redemption, because I am not able to redeem it.”