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Welcome to the Word of the Lord endures forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

This means that Boaz has acquired his wife, not out of any lust on his part, but precisely out of piety.

He wants to fulfill this requirement of the law and give to his dead cousin an heir.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church,

past and present.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Ruth.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Amen. Greetings, people, loved by God. I'm sure you remember that in our last study,

Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down, inviting the nearer kinsman to sit down as well as 10 elders of the people.

Then there was to be a legal, proper transaction all above board.

Boaz reminds the nearer kinsman in no uncertain terms that he had an obligation to our brother, Alemelaq, which he had not fulfilled, the obligation of Leviticus 25,

redeeming his property and keeping it in the family. The man, no doubt, was a bit shamed by this

public reminder and agreed to be brother to Alimalec and purchased the field. But then Boaz

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