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Ruth 4:6-8
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
Ruth 4:6-8
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
6 He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut off the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege, which I profess I do willingly forego.
7 Now this in former times was the manner in Israel between kinsmen, that if at any time one yielded his right to another: that the grant might be sure, the man put off his shoe, and gave it to his neighhour; this was a testimony of cession of right in Israel.
8 So Booz said to his kinsman: Put off thy shoe. And immediately he took it off from his foot.
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