1 Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, "Come over here, friend, and sit down!" He came over, and sat down. 2 Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here," and they sat down. 3 He said to the near kinsman, "Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s. 4 I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you."

He said, "I will redeem it."

5 Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance."

6 The near kinsman said, "I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it."

7 Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel. 8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself," then he took off his sandal.

9 Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, "You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi. 10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today."

11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which Yahweh will give you by this young woman."

13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son. 14 The women said to Naomi, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel. 15 He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him." 16 Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him. 17 The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "A son is born to Naomi". They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

18 Now this is the history of 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.

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.