^7 (A)Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging, to confirm anything: one man took off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was a confirmation in Israel.

⁸ Therefore the close relative said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.” So he took off his sandal. ⁹ And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi. ¹⁰ Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance, ^(B)that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from ^[a]his position at the gate. You are witnesses this day.”

¹¹ And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. ^(C)The Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who ^(D)built the house of Israel; and may you prosper in ^(E)Ephrathah and be famous in ^(F)Bethlehem. ¹² May your house be like the house of ^(G)Perez, ^(H)whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of ^(I)the offspring which the Lord will give you from this young woman.”