# Ruth 4

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there. Just then the redeemer Boaz had spoken about came by. Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he came over and sat down.
2. Then Boaz took ten men from the elders of the town and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.
3. Then he said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech.
4. I thought I should tell you about it and say, ‘Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not redeem it, tell me, so that I will know. For there is no one but you to redeem it, and I come after you.” He said, “I will redeem it.”
5. Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man’s widow, in order to keep the dead man’s name alive on his inheritance.”
6. The redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it for myself, or I would ruin my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”
7. Now in earlier times in Israel, this was the custom for redeeming and exchanging property, to make any transaction final: one man would take off his sandal and give it to the other. This was the way of confirming an agreement in Israel.
8. So the redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” and he took off his sandal.
9. Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I have bought from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon.
10. I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, to be my wife, in order to keep the dead man’s name alive on his inheritance, so that the dead man’s name will not disappear from among his relatives or from the gate of his hometown. You are witnesses today.”
11. Then all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.
12. Through the offspring Yahweh will give you by this young woman, may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”
13. So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. He slept with her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.
14. Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you without a redeemer today! May his name be renowned in Israel.
15. He will restore your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
16. Then Naomi took the child, held him in her arms, and cared for him.
17. The neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi!” They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
18. This is the account of Perez’s descendants: Perez was the father of Hezron,
19. Hezron was the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab,
20. Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, Nahshon was the father of Salmon,
21. Salmon was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the father of Obed,
22. Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.

## Nearby chapters

[Ruth 3](https://www.lumin.faith/read/ruth/3.md)
[1 Samuel 1](https://www.lumin.faith/read/1-samuel/1.md)

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