Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from Naomi, you will acquire[a] Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the deceased man, to perpetuate the man’s name on his property.”[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:5 Lit Naomi and from
  2. 4:5 Alt Hb tradition reads Naomi, I will have already acquired from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead man, the privilege of raising up the name of the dead man on his property

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