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So I thought to uncover this matter in your hearing, saying, ‘(A)Acquire it before those who are sitting here and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if no one redeems it, tell me that I may know; for (B)there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am after you.’” And he said, “I will redeem it.” Then Boaz said, “On the day you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also [a]acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the one who had died, in order (C)to raise up the name of the one who had died, on behalf of his inheritance.” (D)So the kinsman redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. You redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”

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  1. Ruth 4:5 Or acquire it from Ruth