⁵ Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, in order ^(A)to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”

⁶ Then ^(A)the redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, otherwise I would ^[a]jeopardize my own inheritance. Redeem it for yourself; you may have my right of redemption, since I cannot redeem it.”