1Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him, calling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down.

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Deuteronomy 25:7, Ruth 3:12, Deuteronomy 25:7, Ruth 3:12, Deuteronomy 16:18

2And Booz, taking ten men of the ancients of the city, said to them: Sit ye down here.

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Proverbs 31:23, Proverbs 31:23, 1 Kings 21:8, 1 Kings 21:8, Acts 6:12

3They sat down, and he spoke to the kinsman: Noemi, who is returned from the country of Moab will sell a parcel of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.

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Proverbs 13:10, Psalms 112:5, Proverbs 13:10, Psalms 112:5

4I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before all that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it: but if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to do. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me, who am second. But he answered: I will buy the field.

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Jeremiah 32:7, Jeremiah 32:12, Leviticus 25:25, Leviticus 25:29, Jeremiah 32:7

5And Booz said to him: When thou shalt buy the field at the woman's hand, thou must take also Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of the deceased: to raise up the name of thy kinsman in his inheritance.

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Deuteronomy 25:5, Deuteronomy 25:6, Genesis 38:8, Matthew 22:24, Deuteronomy 25:5

6He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut off the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege, which I profess I do willingly forego.

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Ruth 3:13, Leviticus 25:25, Ruth 3:13, Leviticus 25:25

7Now this in former times was the manner in Israel between kinsmen, that if at any time one yielded his right to another: that the grant might be sure, the man put off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour; this was a testimony of cession of right in Israel.

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Deuteronomy 25:7, Deuteronomy 25:10, Deuteronomy 25:7, Deuteronomy 25:10

8So Booz said to his kinsman: Put off thy shoe. And immediately he took it off from his foot.

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9And he said to the ancients, and to all the people: You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and Chelion's, and Mahalon's, of the hand of Noemi:

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Jeremiah 32:10, Jeremiah 32:12, Genesis 23:16, Genesis 23:18, Jeremiah 32:10

10And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.

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Deuteronomy 25:6, Deuteronomy 25:6, Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:25, Psalms 34:16

11Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients, answered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem:

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Genesis 29:32, Genesis 30:24, Genesis 29:32, Genesis 30:24, Matthew 2:6

12And that the house may be, as the house of Phares, whom Thamar bore unto Juda, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman.

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Genesis 38:29, Genesis 38:29, 1 Samuel 2:20, 1 Chronicles 2:4, 1 Samuel 2:20

13Booz therefore took Ruth, and married her: and went in unto her, and the Lord gave her to conceive, and to bear a son.

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Genesis 29:31, Genesis 33:5, Genesis 29:31, Genesis 33:5, Ruth 3:11

14And the women said to Noemi: Blessed be the Lord, who hath not suffered thy family to want a successor: that his name should be preserved in Israel.

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Genesis 12:2, Luke 1:58, Genesis 12:2, Luke 1:58, Matthew 1:5

15And thou shouldst have one to comfort thy soul, and cherish thy old age. For he is born of thy daughter in law: who loveth thee: and is much better to thee, than if thou hadst seven sons.

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Psalms 55:22, Psalms 55:22, Genesis 45:11, Isaiah 46:4, Genesis 45:11

16And Noemi taking the child, laid it in her bosom, and she carried it, and was a nurse unto it.

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17And the women, her neighbours, congratulating with her, and saying, There is a son born to Noemi, called his name Obed: he is the father of Isai, the father of David.

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Luke 1:58, Luke 1:63, Luke 1:58, Luke 1:63

18These are the generations of Phares: Phares begot Esron,

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Matthew 1:3, Matthew 1:6, Matthew 1:3, Matthew 1:6, 1 Chronicles 2:4

19Esron begot Aram, Aram begot Aminadab,

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Matthew 1:4, 1 Chronicles 2:9, 1 Chronicles 2:10, Luke 3:33, Matthew 1:4

20Aminadab begot Nahasson, Nahasson begot Salmon,

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Numbers 1:7, Numbers 1:7, Matthew 1:4, Luke 3:32, Matthew 1:4

21Salmon begot Booz, Booz begot Obed,

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Luke 3:32, Matthew 1:5, Luke 3:32, Matthew 1:5, 1 Chronicles 2:11

22Obed begot Isai, Isai begot David.

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Isaiah 11:1, 1 Samuel 16:1, Luke 3:31, Matthew 1:6, 1 Chronicles 2:15