Ruth 4:6-8

Living Bible

⁶ “Then I can’t do it,” the man replied. “For her son would become an heir to my property too;^[a] you buy it.”

⁷ In those days it was the custom in Israel for a man transferring a right of purchase to pull off his sandal and hand it to the other party; this publicly validated the transaction. ⁸ So, as the man said to Boaz, “You buy it for yourself,” he drew off his sandal.