Ruth 4:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵ Then Boaz said, “On the day when you buy the field from Naomi, you also buy^[a] Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the dead man, in order to preserve the dead man’s name for his inheritance.”

⁶ But the redeemer replied, “Then I can’t redeem it for myself, without risking damage to my own inheritance. Redeem it for yourself. You can have my right of redemption, because I’m unable to act as redeemer.”

⁷ In Israel, in former times, this was the practice regarding redemption and exchange to confirm any such matter: a man would take off his sandal and give it to the other person. This was the process of making a transaction binding in Israel.