Boaz said, "Ho, such a
one! turn aside, sit down here." And he turned aside and sat down.

And Boaz took also ten men of the elders of the city and said, "Sit ye
down here." And they sat down.

Then said Boaz unto the kinsman, "Naomi, that is come again out of the
land of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother's. And I
thought to ask thee to buy it before the inhabitants and before the
elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it; but if thou wilt
not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to
redeem it beside thee, and I am after thee. And what day thou buyest it
of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the
wife of the dead."

And the kinsman said, "I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine
own inheritance; redeem thou my right to thyself: for I cannot redeem
it."

Now this was the manner in former time in Israel, concerning redeeming
and concerning changing, for to confirm all things: a man plucked off
his shoe and gave it to his neighbor; and this was a testimony in
Israel. Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, "Buy it for thee." So he
drew off his shoe.

And Boaz said unto the elders and all the people, "Ye are witnesses this
day that I have bought all that was Naomi's husband's and all that was
her son's of the hand of Naomi. Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife
of my kinsman that is dead, have I purchased to be my wife, that the
name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the
gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day."

And all the people that were there in the gate, and the elders, said,
"We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house
like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and
do thou worthily and be famous in Bethlehem."

So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife, and she bare him a son. And the
women said unto Naomi, "Blessed be the Lord that hath not left thee this
day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he
shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old
age; for thy daughter-in-law which loveth thee, which is better to thee
than seven sons, hath borne him."

And Naomi took the child and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto
it. And the women, her neighbors, gave it a name, saying, "There is a
son born to Naomi, and his name is Obed."

This same Obed is the father of Jesse, who is the father