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Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth[a] the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order (A)to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”

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  1. Ruth 4:5 Masoretic Text you also buy it from Ruth

Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage

(A)“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her (B)husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

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