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4 So I thought to myself I ought to tell you that you must make a public purchase of this before the town residents and the elders of my people. So if you intend to act as the related redeemer, then do so. But if not, let me know, because except for you—and I after you—there is no one to fulfill the duties of a related redeemer.| The man responded, |I will act as related redeemer.| 5 Boaz continued, |On the very day you buy the field from Naomi, you're also |buying| Ruth the Moabite woman, the wife of her dead husband, so the family name may be continued as an inheritance.| 6 At this, the nearer related redeemer replied, |Then I am unable to act as related redeemer, because that would complicate my own inheritance. You act instead as the related redeemer, because I cannot do so.| Ruth 4:4-6, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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