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Ruth 4:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Ruth 4:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 So when the next-of-kin[a] said to Boaz, “Acquire it for yourself,” he took off his sandal. 9 Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I have acquired from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to maintain the dead man’s name on his inheritance, in order that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his kindred and from the gate of his native place; today you are witnesses.”(A)
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- 4.8 Or one with the right to redeem
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