Ruth 4:8

New Revised Standard

So when the next-of-kin said to Boaz, "Acquire it for yourself," he took off his sandal.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the redeemer removed his sandal and said to Boaz, “Buy back the property yourself.”

Hebrew Names Version
So the near kinsman said to Bo`az, Buy it for yourself. He drew off his shoe.

King James Version
Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.

Lexham English Bible
So the redeemer said to Boaz, "Acquire it for yourself," and he removed his sandal.

English Standard Version
So when the redeemer said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself," he drew off his sandal.

New Century Version
So the close relative said to Boaz, "Buy the land yourself," and he took off his sandal.

New English Translation
So the guardian said to Boaz, "You may acquire it," and he removed his sandal.

Amplified Bible
So, when the closest relative (redeemer) said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself," he pulled off his sandal [and gave it to Boaz to confirm the agreement].

New American Standard Bible
So the redeemer said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." And he removed his sandal.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore the kinsman sayd to Boas, Buy it for thee: and he drew off his shooe.

Legacy Standard Bible
So the kinsman redeemer said to Boaz, "Acquire this for yourself." And he removed his sandal.

Contemporary English Version
So after the man had agreed to let Boaz buy the property, he took off one of his sandals and handed it to Boaz.

Complete Jewish Bible
So the redeemer said to Bo‘az, "Buy it for yourself," and took off his shoe.

Darby Translation
And he that had the right of redemption said to Boaz, Buy for thyself; and he drew off his sandal.

Easy-to-Read Version
So when the close relative said to Boaz, "You buy the land," he took off his sandal and gave it to Boaz.

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.

Good News Translation
So when the man said to Boaz, "You buy it," he took off his sandal and gave it to Boaz.

Literal Translation
And the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy for yourself, and drew off his sandal.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the nye kynsman sayde vnto Boos: Bye thou it, & he put of his shue.

American Standard Version
So the near kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thyself. And he drew off his shoe.

Bible in Basic English
So the near relation said to Boaz, Take it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore the kinsman sayde to Booz, Bye it thou: and so drue of his shoe.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the near kinsman said unto Boaz: 'Buy it for thyself.' And he drew off his shoe.

King James Version (1611)
Therfore the kinseman said vnto Boaz, Buy it for thee: so he drew off his shooe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the kinsman said to Booz, Buy my right for thyself: and he took off his shoe and gave it to him.

English Revised Version
So the near kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thyself. And he drew off his shoe.

Berean Standard Bible
So the kinsman-redeemer removed his sandal and said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Booz seide to his kynesman, Take the scho fro thee; `which scho he vnlaside anoon fro his foot.

Young's Literal Translation
And the redeemer saith to Boaz, `Buy [it] for thyself,' and draweth off his sandal.

Update Bible Version
So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. And he drew off his shoe.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore the kinsman said to Boaz, Buy [it] for thyself. So he drew off his shoe.

World English Bible
So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. He drew off his shoe.

New King James Version
Therefore the close relative said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." So he took off his sandal.

New Living Translation
So the other family redeemer drew off his sandal as he said to Boaz, "You buy the land."

New Life Bible
So he said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." And he took off his shoe.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the kinsman said unto Boaz, Take it over for thyself, - and he drew off his shoe.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Booz said to his kinsman: Put off thy shoe. And immediately he took it off from his foot.

Revised Standard Version
So when the next of kin said to Bo'az, "Buy it for yourself," he drew off his sandal.

THE MESSAGE
So when Boaz's "redeemer" relative said, "Go ahead and buy it," he signed the deal by pulling off his shoe.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the closest relative said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." And he removed his sandal.

Contextual Overview

¹ No sooner had Boaz gone up to the gate and sat down there than the next-of-kin, of whom Boaz had spoken, came passing by. So Boaz said, "Come over, friend; sit down here." And he went over and sat down. ² Then Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here"; so they sat down. ³ He then said to the next-of-kin, "Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our kinsman Elimelech. ⁴ So I thought I would tell you of it, and say: Buy it in the presence of those sitting here, and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not, tell me, so that I may know; for there is no one prior to you to redeem it, and I come after you." So he said, "I will redeem it." ⁵ Then Boaz said, "The day you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi, you are also acquiring Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead man, to maintain the dead man's name on his inheritance." ⁶ At this, the next-of-kin said, "I cannot redeem it for myself without damaging my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it." ⁷ Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one took off a sandal and gave it to the other; this was the manner of attesting in Israel. ⁸ So when the next-of-kin said to Boaz, "Acquire it for yourself," he took off his sandal.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 25:9 - loose his shoe Psalms 108:9 - I cast

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground,

Genesis 4:6
The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen?

Genesis 4:9
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"

Genesis 4:10
And the Lord said, "What have you done? Listen; your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!

Genesis 4:12
When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."

Genesis 4:15
Then the Lord said to him, "Not so! Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance." And the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him.

Genesis 4:24
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold."

Genesis 4:26
To Seth also a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to invoke the name of the Lord .

2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gateway to speak with him privately, and there he stabbed him in the stomach. So he died for shedding the blood of Asahel, Joab's brother.

2 Samuel 14:6
Your servant had two sons, and they fought with one another in the field; there was no one to part them, and one struck the other and killed him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, buy it for me,.... Which is repeated to show he gave his full consent to it, that he should make the purchase of it if he pleased, and which he confirmed by the following rite:

so he drew off his shoe; thereby signifying that he relinquished his right to the purchase of the estate, and ceded it to him; the Targum has it,

"and Boaz drew off the glove off his right hand, and bought it of him;''

and so Aben Ezra,

"and Boaz drew off his shoe, and gave it to his kinsman,''

as if this was some acknowledgment for yielding his right unto him; and about this there is a great dissension among the Jewish writers l; one says it was the shoe of Boaz that was plucked off; another says it was the shoe of the kinsman; which latter seems most correct: and it may be observed, that this custom is different from what is enjoined

Deuteronomy 25:6 there the woman was to pluck off the shoe of him that refused to marry her, but here the man plucked off his own shoe, who chose not to redeem; nor is there mention of spitting in his face; nor does it appear that Ruth did the one or the other; though Josephus m affirms it, and says, that she both plucked off his shoe, and spit in his face; neither of which are mentioned.

l Midrash Ruth, fol. 35. 2. m Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 9. sect. 4.)