Ruth 4:2-4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

² Then Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here”; so they sat down. ³ He then said to the next-of-kin,^[a] “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our kinsman Elimelech. ⁴ So I thought I would tell you of it, and say: Buy it in the presence of those sitting here, and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not, tell me, so that I may know; for there is no one prior to you to redeem it, and I come after you.” So he said, “I will redeem it.”