⁵ Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, in order ^(A)to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”

¹⁰ Furthermore, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so ^(A)that the name of the deceased will not be eliminated from his brothers or from the ^[a]court of his birth place; you are witnesses today.”