These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ruth 4
Tanakh 22 verses
- 1 Now went up to the gate, and sat him down there; and, behold, the near kinsman of whom spoke came by; unto whom he said: ‘Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here.’ And he turned aside, and sat down.
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And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said: ‘Sit ye down here.’ And they sat down.
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And he said unto the near kinsman: ‘, that is come back out of the field of , selleth the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s;
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and I thought to disclose it unto thee, saying: Buy it before them that sit here, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it; but if it will not be redeemed, then tell me, that I may ; for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee.’ And he said: ‘I will redeem it.’
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Then said : ‘What day thou buyest the field of the hand of —hast thou also bought of the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the of the dead upon his inheritance?’
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And the near kinsman said: ‘I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance; take thou my right of redemption on thee; for I cannot redeem it.’—
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Now this was the custom in former time in concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man drew off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour; and this was the attestation in .—
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- 8 So the near kinsman said unto : ‘Buy it for thyself.’ And he drew off his shoe.
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And said unto the elders, and unto all the people: ‘Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, of the hand of .
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- 10 Moreover the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I acquired to be my wife, to raise up the of the dead upon his inheritance, that the of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place; ye are witnesses this day.’
- 11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said: ‘We are witnesses. The make the woman that is come into thy house like and like , which two did build the house of ; and do thou worthily in Ephrath, and be famous in Beth-lehem;
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and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore unto , of the seed which shall give thee of this young woman.’
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- 13 So took , and she became his wife; and he went in unto her, and gave her conception, and she bore a son.
- 14 And the women said unto : ‘Blessed be , who hath not left thee this day without a near kinsman, and let his be famous in .
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And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age; for thy daughter-in-, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.’
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- 16 And took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
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And the women her neighbours gave it a , saying: ‘There is a son born to Naomi’; and they called his Obed; he is the father of Jesse, the father of .
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Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez begot Hezron;
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and Hezron begot Ram, and Ram begot Amminadab;
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and Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon;
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and Salmon begot , and begot Obed;
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and Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot .
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