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Ruth 4:5-7
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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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  1. Ruth 4:5 Lit. from the hand of Naomi
  2. Ruth 4:5 So MT ketiv; MT qere reads you will be obtaining
  3. Ruth 4:5 Lit. the dead
  4. Ruth 4:5 Or be raised up
  5. Ruth 4:6 Lit. cannot act as related redeemer
  6. Ruth 4:7 Or years
  7. Ruth 4:7 Or neighbor; cf. Deut 25:9
  8. Ruth 4:7 The Heb. lacks public
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