BRAGADAYJAH 796
At that time, there was a custom in
Israel, that if a man declined his right of inheritance, he would pluck off his
shoe and give it to his neighbor. So the kinsman told Boaz, “You buy it;” and
with that he threw off his shoe. And Boaz said unto the elders and unto all the
people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that which belonged
to Elimelech and all that was Chillon’s and Mahlons of the hand of Naomi. In addition, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of
Mahon have I purchased to be my wife to raise up an inheritance that the name
of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren; and from the gate of his
place; ye are witnesses this day.” And
all the people that were in the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses.
The Lord make the woman that is come into thy house like Rachael and like Leah
which two did build the house of Israel, and do thou worthily in Ephratah and
be famous in Bethlehem. And let thy house
be like the house of Pharez whom Tamar bare unto Judah of the seed which the
Lord shall give thee of this young woman.”
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