Rut 4:9-12 | ESV | STEP | Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people , You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon .

Ruth 4:9-12

9 Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to ^aChilion and to Mahlon. 10 Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, ^bto perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.” 11 Then all the people who were ^cat the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, ^dwho together ^ebuilt up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in ^fEphrathah and ^gbe renowned in Bethlehem, 12 and may your house be like the house of Perez, ^hwhom Tamar bore to Judah, because ⁱof the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”