Meanwhile, Boas went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian

Redeemer he had mentioned came along.

Boas said, come over here, my friend, and sit down.

So he went over and sat down.

Boas took ten of the elders of the town and said,

sit here, and they did so.

Then he said to the guardian Redeemer,

Naomi who had come back from Moab is setting the piece of land,

is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relatives

Elemaic. I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you

buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people.

If you will redeem it, do so, but if you will not, tell me so I will know, for

no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.

I will redeem it, he said. Then Boas said on the day you buy the

land from Naomi you also require acquire Ruth the Moabite the dead man's widow in

order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.

At this the guardian redeemer said, then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate.

You redeem it yourself.

I cannot do it.

Now in the earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final,

one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other.

This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.

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