4:1So Boaz went up to the gate, and sat there. 4:1And when he had seen the kinsman passing by, of whom mention had been made before, he said to him: "Turn aside a little, and sit here": calling him by his name. 4:1He turned aside, and sat down. 4:2And Boaz, taking ten men from the elders of the city, said to them: "Sit here." 4:3As they sat, he spoke to the kinsman: "Naomi, who has returned from the region of Moab, will sell the portion of the field of our brother Elimelech: which I wished you to hear, and to tell you before all those sitting here, and the elders of my people.
4:4If you wish to possess it by right of kinship, buy, and possess: but if it displeases you, indicate this very thing to me, so that I may know what I ought to do: for there is no kinsman except you, who are first, and me, who am second." 4:4But he answered: "I will buy the field." 4:5Boaz said to him: "When you buy the field from the hand of the woman, you must also take Ruth the Moabitess, who was the wife of the dead man: so that you may raise up the name of your kinsman in his inheritance." 4:6He answered: "I yield the right of kinship: for I ought not to destroy the posterity of my own family: you use my privilege, which I declare I gladly give up."
4:7Now this was the custom of old in Israel among kinsmen, that if ever one yielded his right to the other, in order that the concession might be firm, the man loosed his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: this was the testimony of cession in Israel. 4:8So Boaz said to his kinsman: "Take off your shoe." 4:8Which he at once loosed from his foot. 4:9But he to the elders, and to all the people: "You are witnesses," he said, "today, that I have taken possession of all the things that were Elimelech's, and Chilion's, and Mahlon's, Naomi handing them over; 4:10and that I have taken Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, in marriage, to raise up the name of the dead man in his inheritance, lest his name be blotted out from his family and brothers and people.
4:10You, I say, are witnesses of this matter." 4:11All the people who were at the gate, and the elders, answered: "We are witnesses: may the Lord make this woman, who is entering your house, like Rachel and Leah, who built the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrathah, and have a famous name in Bethlehem: and may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, from the seed which the Lord will give you from this girl." 4:13So Boaz took Ruth, and received her as wife: and he went in to her, and the Lord granted her that she should conceive, and bear a son.
4:14And the women said to Naomi: "Blessed be the Lord, who has not allowed a successor to your family to be lacking, and that his name should be called in Israel: and may you have one to comfort your soul, and nourish your old age: for he has been born of your daughter-in-law, who loves you, and is much better to you than if you had seven sons." 4:16And Naomi, having taken up the boy, placed him in her bosom, and was performing the office of nurse and carrier. 4:17And the neighbour women, congratulating her, and saying: "A son has been born to Naomi": called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
4:18These are the generations of Perez: Perez begot Hezron, Hezron begot Ram, Ram begot Amminadab, Amminadab begot Nahshon, Nahshon begot Salmon, Salmon begot Boaz, Boaz begot Obed, Obed begot Jesse, Jesse begot David.