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ascendit ergo Booz ad portam et sedit ibi cumque vidissetpropinquum praeterire de quo prius sermo habitus est dixit adeum declina paulisper et sede hic vocans eum nomine suo quidevertit et sedit

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tollens autem Booz decem viros de senioribus civitatis dixitad eos sedete hic

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quibus residentibus locutus est ad propinquum partem agrifratris nostri Helimelech vendit Noemi quae reversa est deregione moabitide

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quod audire te volui et tibi dicere coram cunctis sedentibuset maioribus natu de populo meo si vis possidere iurepropinquitatis eme et posside sin autem tibi displicet hocipsum indica mihi ut sciam quid facere debeam nullus est enimpropinquus excepto te qui prior es et me qui secundus sum atille respondit ego agrum emam

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cui dixit Booz quando emeris agrum de manu mulieris Ruthquoque Moabitidem quae uxor defuncti fuit debes accipere utsuscites nomen propinqui tui in hereditate sua

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qui respondit cedo iure propinquitatis neque enimposteritatem familiae meae delere debeo tu meo utere privilegioquo me libenter carere profiteor

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hic autem erat mos antiquitus in Israhel inter propinquos etsi quando alter alteri suo iure cedebat ut esset firmaconcessio solvebat homo calciamentum suum et dabat proximo suohoc erat testimonium cessionis in Israhel

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dixit ergo propinquus Booz tolle calciamentum quod statimsolvit de pede suo

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at ille maioribus natu et universo populo testes inquit vosestis hodie quod possederim omnia quae fuerunt Helimelech etChellion et Maalon tradente Noemi

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et Ruth Moabitidem uxorem Maalon in coniugium sumpserim utsuscitem nomen defuncti in hereditate sua ne vocabulum eius defamilia sua ac fratribus et populo deleatur vos inquam huiusrei testes estis

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respondit omnis populus qui erat in porta et maiores natunos testes sumus faciat Dominus hanc mulierem quae ingrediturdomum tuam sicut Rachel et Liam quae aedificaverunt domumIsrahel ut sit exemplum virtutis in Ephrata et habeat celebrenomen in Bethleem

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fiatque domus tua sicut domus Phares quem Thamar peperitIudae de semine quod dederit Dominus tibi ex hac puella

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tulit itaque Booz Ruth et accepit uxorem ingressusque estad eam et dedit illi Dominus ut conciperet et pareret filium

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dixeruntque mulieres ad Noemi benedictus Dominus qui nonest passus ut deficeret successor familiae tuae et vocareturnomen eius in Israhel

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et habeas qui consoletur animam tuam et enutriat senectutemde nuru enim tua natus est quae te diligit et multo tibi estmelior quam si septem haberes filios

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susceptumque Noemi puerum posuit in sinu suo et nutricis acgerulae officio fungebatur

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vicinae autem mulieres congratulantes ei et dicentes natusest filius Noemi vocaverunt nomen eius Obed hic est pater Isaipatris David

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hae sunt generationes Phares Phares genuit Esrom

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Esrom genuit Aram Aram genuit Aminadab

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Aminadab genuit Naasson Naasson genuit Salma

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Salma genuit Booz Booz genuit Obed

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Obed genuit Isai Isai genuit David

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Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

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And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.

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And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:

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And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

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Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

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And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

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Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor: and this was a testimony in Israel.

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Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.

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And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.

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Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his 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.

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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 thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

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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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So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.

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And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.

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And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

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And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

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And the women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

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And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,

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And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,

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And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

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And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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