1Then Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Look, the kinsman Boaz had spoken about came by. Boaz said to him, "You there, come over and sit down here." So he turned aside and sat down.
2Boaz took ten of the elders of the city and said, "Sit down here." And they sat down.
3Then he said to the kinsman, "Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling a piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech."
4"I thought I should tell you about it and say, 'Buy it in front of the people who live here and in front of the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not redeem it, then tell me, so that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it but you, and I come after you." And he said, "I will redeem it."
5Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from Naomi's hand, you must also buy Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead man, to raise up the name of the dead man on his inheritance."
6The kinsman said, "I cannot redeem it for myself, or I will spoil my own inheritance. You take my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it."
7Now this was the custom in earlier times in Israel about redeeming and about exchanging, to make everything sure: a man pulled off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour. This was a witness in Israel.
8So the kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." And he pulled off his shoe.
9Then Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, "You are witnesses today that I have bought from Naomi's hand everything that was Elimelech's, and everything that was Chilion's and Mahlon's."
10"And I have also bought Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead man on his inheritance. So the name of the dead man will not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today."
11And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, the two who built the house of Israel. May you do worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem."
12"And may your house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, through the children the LORD will give you by this young woman."
13So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. He went in to her, and the LORD let her conceive, and she bore a son.
14The women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you today without a kinsman. May his name be famous in Israel."
15"He will bring your life back to you, and he will care for you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him."
16And Naomi took the child and held him close, and she became his nurse.
17The women who were her neighbours gave him a name. They said, "A son has been born to Naomi." They called his name Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
18Now these are the generations of Pharez. Pharez was the father of Hezron,
19and Hezron was the father of Ram, and Ram was the father of Amminadab,
20and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon was the father of Salmon,