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6 He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut off the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege, which I profess I do willingly forego. 7 Now this in former times was the manner in Israel between kinsmen, that if at any time one yielded his right to another: that the grant might be sure, the man put off his shoe, and gave it to his neighhour; this was a testimony of cession of right in Israel. 8 So Booz said to his kinsman: Put off thy shoe. And immediately he took it off from his foot. Ruth 4:6-8, Douay-Rheims Bible. Public domain.
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