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And the kinsman said to Booz, Buy my right for thyself: and he took off his shoe and gave it to him.
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And Booz said to the elders and to all the people, Ye this day witnesses, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that belonged to Chelaion and Maalon, of the hand of Noemin.
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Moreover I have bought for myself for a wife Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Maalon, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance; so the name of the dead shall not be destroyed from among his brethren, and from the tribe of his people: ye this day witnesses.
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And all the people who were in the gate said, witnesses: and the elders said, The Lord make thy wife who goes into thy house, as Rachel and as Lia, who both built the house of Israel, and wrought mightily in Ephratha, and there shall be a name in Bethleem.
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And let thy house be as the house of Phares, whom Thamar bore to Juda, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this handmaid.
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And Booz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in to her; and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.
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And the woman said to Noemin, Blessed the Lord, who has not suffered a redeemer to fail thee this day, even to make thy name famous in Israel.
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And he shall be to thee a restorer of thy soul, and one to cherish thy old age; for thy daughter-in-law which has loved thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, has born him.
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And Noemin took the child and laid it in her bosom, and became a nurse to it.
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And the neighbours gave it a name, saying, A son has been born to Noemin; and they called his name Obed; this the father of Jessae the father of David.
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And these the generations of Phares: Phares begot Esrom: