Ruth 4:1-6

1599 Geneva Bible

4 1 Boaz speaketh to Ruth’s next kinsman touching her marriage. 7 The ancient custom in Israel. 10 Boaz marrieth Ruth, of whom he begetteth Obed. 18 The generation of Perez.

¹ Then went Boaz up to the ^[a]gate, and sat there, and behold, the kinsman, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by: and he said, ^[b]Ho, such one, come, sit down here. And he turned, and sat down.

² Then he took ten men of the Elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.

³ And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, will sell a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.

⁴ And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the ^[c]assistants, and before the Elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, tell me: for I know that there is none ^[d]besides thee to redeem it, and I am after thee. Then he answered, I will redeem it.

⁵ Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must also buy it of Ruth the Moabitess the wife of the dead, to stir up the name of the dead, upon his ^[e]inheritance.

⁶ And the kinsman answered, I cannot redeem it, lest I destroy mine own inheritance: redeem my right to thee, for I can not redeem it.