1Then went Booz unto the gate and sat him down there: and behold, the kinsman of which Booz spake came by. Unto whom he said come and sit down here, and called him by his name. And he turned in and sat down.
2Then he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, sit ye down here. And they sat down.
3Then he said unto the kinsman: Noemi that is come again out of the country of Moab, will sell a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelec's.
4And I thought to do thee to wete and bid thee buy it before the inhabiters and elders of my people, if thou be disposed to challenge it: but and if thou wilt not purchase it, then tell me that I may wete it. For there is none to challenge it save thou, and I next thee. And the other answered I will purchase it.
5Then said Booz, what day thou buyest the field of the hand of Noemi, thou must take also Ruth the Moabite the wife of the dead to stir up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
6Then said the kinsman, I can not purchase it for marrying of mine own inheritance: take thou my right to thee, for I can not purchase it.
7Now this was the manner of old time in Israel concerning purchase and changing, for to establish all things: that a man must pluck off his shoe and give it his neighbour, and this was a witness in Israel.
8And the kinsman said to Booz, buy it thou: and so drew off his shoe.
9Then said Booz unto the elders and unto all the people ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelec's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahalon's, of the hand of Noemi.
10And moreover Ruth the Moabite the wife of Mahalon, do I take unto me to wife to stir up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that his name be not put out from among his brethren, and from the gate of his city: ye are witnesses this day.
11And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders said we are witnesses: the LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rahel and Lea, which twain did build the house of Israel: that she may do virtuously in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem,
12and that thine house be like the house of Pharez, whom Thamar bare unto Juda, even of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.
13And so Booz took Ruth, and she was his wife. And he went in unto her, and the LORD gave that she conceived and bare a son.
14And the women said unto Noemi: blessed be the LORD the which hath not left thee without an heir this day that shall have a name in Israel,
15and that shall bring thy life again and cherish thine old age. For thy daughter-in-law which loveth thee hath borne him that is better to thee than seven sons.
16And Noemi took the child and laid it in her lap, and became nurse unto it.
17And her neighbours gave it a name saying: there is a child borne to Noemi, and called it Obed: he is the father of Isai, the father of David.
18This is the generation of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron:
19Hezron begat Ram, Ram begat Aminadab,
20Aminadab begat Nahason, Nahason begat Salmon,
21Salmon begat Booz, Booz begat Obed,
22Obed begat Isai, Isai begat David. [Thus endeth the book of Ruth.]