Ruth 4:5-7
International Standard Version
A Complication Arises and is Resolved
5 Boaz continued, “On the very day you obtain the field from Naomi,[a] I’ll be obtaining[b] Ruth the Moabite woman, the widow of the late heir,[c] so the family name may be continued[d] as an inheritance.”
6 At this, the nearer related redeemer replied, “Then I am unable to act as related redeemer, because that would complicate my own inheritance. You act instead as the related redeemer, because I cannot do so.”[e]
7 During Israel’s earlier history,[f] all things concerning redeeming or changing inheritances were confirmed by a man taking off his sandal and giving it to the other party,[g] thereby creating a public[h] record in Israel.
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