1 En Boas het opgegaan na die poort en daar gaan sit. En toe die losser juis daar verbygaan van wie Boas gespreek het, sê hy: Vriend, kom nader, en sit hier! En hy het nader gekom en gaan sit.

2 Daarop neem hy tien man uit die oudstes van die stad en sê: Sit hier! En hulle het gaan sit.

3 En hy sê vir die losser: Die stuk grond van ons broer Eliméleg wil Naomi, wat uit die veld van Moab teruggekom het, verkoop.

4 Nou het ek gedink, ek sal jou dit meedeel en sê: Koop dit voor die wat hier sit, en voor die oudstes van my volk; as jy wil los, los dan; maar as jy nie wil los nie, gee my te kenne, dat ek dit kan weet, want daar is niemand om te los behalwe jy nie, en ek n jou. En hy antwoord: Ek sal los.

5 Daarop sê Boas: Die dag as jy die grond uit die hand van Naomi koop, dan verwerf jy tegelyk Rut, die Moabitiese, die vrou van die dode, om die naam van die dode in stand te hou oor sy erfdeel.

6 En die losser sê: Ek kan dit nie vir my los nie, anders bederf ek my erfdeel; neem jy my lossingsreg oor, want ek kan nie los nie.

7 En d¡t was vroeër in Israel die gebruik by lossing en by ruiling om enige saak van krag te maak: die een trek sy skoen uit en gee dit aan die ander; dit was dan die bekragtiging in Israel.

8 Daarom het die losser vir Boas gesê: Koop dit vir jou; en hy het sy skoen uitgetrek.

9 Toe sê Boas aan die oudstes en al die mense: Julle is vandag getuies dat ek alles wat aan Elim,leg en alles wat aan Giljon en Maglon behoort het, uit die hand van Naomi koop.

10 En ook Rut, die Moabitiese, die vrou van Maglon, verwerf ek vir my as vrou om die naam van die dode oor sy erfdeel in stand te hou, sodat die naam van die dode onder sy broers en uit die poort van sy woonplek nie uitgeroei word nie. Julle is vandag getuies.

11 Toe sê al die mense wat in die poort was, en die oudstes: Ons is getuies; mag die HERE die vrou wat in jou huis inkom, maak soos Ragel en soos Lea wat saam die huis van Israel gebou het; en verwerf mag in frata en maak 'n naam in Betlehem!

12 En mag jou huis word soos die huis van Peres wat Tamar vir Juda gebaar het -- uit die nageslag wat die HERE jou uit hierdie jong vrou sal gee!

13 So het Boas Rut dan geneem, en sy het sy vrou geword; en hy het by haar ingegaan, en die HERE het vir haar swangerskap gegee, en sy het 'n seun gebaar.

14 Toe sê die vroue vir Naomi: Geloofd sy die HERE wat aan jou vandag 'n losser nie laat ontbreek het nie! En mag sy naam in Israel geroem word!

15 Hy sal vir jou een wees wat jou siel verkwik en jou grysheid versorg; want jou skoondogter wat jou liefhet, het hom gebaar, sy wat vir jou meer werd is as sewe seuns.

16 En Naomi het die kind geneem en op haar skoot gesit, en sy het sy pleegmoeder geword.

17 En die buurvroue het hom 'n naam gegee en gesê: Vir Naomi is 'n seun gebore! En hulle het hom genoem Obed; hy was die vader van Isai, die vader van Dawid.

18 En dit is die stamboom van Peres: Peres was die vader van Hesron,

19 en Hesron die vader van Ram, en Ram van Amm¡nadab,

20 en Amm¡nadab van Nagson, en Nagson van Salma,

21 en Salmon van Boas, en Boas van Obed,

22 en Obed van Isai, en Isai van Dawid.

1 And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated.

2 Then he got ten of the responsible men of the town, and said, Be seated here. And they took their seats.

3 Then he said to the near relation, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is offering for a price that bit of land which was our brother Elimelech's:

4 And it was in my mind to give you the chance of taking it, with the approval of those seated here and of the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relation to do, then do it: but if you will not do it, say so to me now; for there is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you myself. And he said, I will do it.

5 Then Boaz said, On the day when you take this field, you will have to take with it Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, so that you may keep the name of the dead living in his heritage.

6 And the near relation said, I am not able to do the relation's part, for fear of damaging the heritage I have: you may do it in my place, for I am not able to do it myself.

7 Now, in earlier times this was the way in Israel when property was taken over by a near relation, or when there was a change of owner. To make the exchange certain one man took off his shoe and gave it to the other; and this was a witness in Israel.

8 So the near relation said to Boaz, Take it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.

9 Then Boaz said to the responsible men and to all the people, You are witnesses today that I have taken at a price from Naomi all the property which was Elimelech's, and everything which was Chilion's and Mahlon's.

10 And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day.

11 And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;

12 May your family be like the family of Perez, the son whom Tamar gave to Judah, from the offspring which the Lord may give you by this young woman.

13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord made her with child and she gave birth to a son.

14 And the women said to Naomi, A blessing on the Lord, who has not let you be this day without a near relation, and may his name be great in Israel.

15 He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.

16 And Naomi took the child and put her arms round it, and she took care of it.

17 And the women who were her neighbours gave it a name, saying, Naomi has a child; and they gave him the name of Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

18 Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron;

19 And Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab;

20 And Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon;

21 And Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed;

22 And Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.