Ruth 4:5-7

New International Version

⁵ Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite,^(A) the^[a] dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.”^(B)

⁶ At this, the guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem^(C) it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.”^(D)

⁷ (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption^(E) and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal^(F) and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions^(G) in Israel.)^(H)