- 波阿斯到了城门,坐在那里,恰巧波阿斯所说的那至近的亲属经过。波阿斯说,某人哪,你来坐在这里。他就来坐下。
- 波阿斯又从本城的长老中拣选了十人,对他们说,请你们坐在这里。他们就都坐下。
- 波阿斯对那至近的亲属说,从摩押地回来的拿俄米,现在要卖我们族兄以利米勒的那块地。
- 我想当赎那块地的是你,其次是我,以外再没有别人了。你可以在这里的人面前,和我本国的长老面前说明,你若肯赎就赎,若不肯赎就告诉我。那人回答说,我肯赎。
- 波阿斯说,你从拿俄米手中买这地的时候,也当娶(原文作买十节同)死人的妻摩押女子路得,使死人在产业上存留他的名。
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- Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there, and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz spoke was passing by, so he said, "Turn aside, friend, sit down here." And he turned aside and sat down.
- He took ten men of the elders of the city and said, "Sit down here." So they sat down.
- Then he said to the closest relative, "Naomi, who has come back from the land of Moab, has to sell the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimelech.
- "So I thought to inform you, saying, 'Buy it before those who are sitting here, and before the elders of my people If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if not, tell me that I may know; for there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am after you.'" And he said, "I will redeem it."
- Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance."
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