Ruth 4:1-3

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Marriage of Boaz and Ruth

4 No sooner had Boaz gone up to the gate and sat down there than the next-of-kin,^[a] of whom Boaz had spoken, came passing by. So Boaz said, “Come over, friend; sit down here.” And he went over and sat down. ² Then Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here”; so they sat down. ³ He then said to the next-of-kin,^[b] “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our kinsman Elimelech.