Psalms 82:8Open English Bible (Commonwealth)
Arise, O God, judge the earth, for all nations are yours by inheritance.
Arise, O God, judge the earth, for all nations are yours by inheritance.
Ruth 1:1
In the time when the judges ruled, there was once a famine in the land. A man from Bethlehem in Judah took his wife and two sons to live in the territory of Moab.
Ruth 3:3
Tonight he is going to winnow barley on the threshing-floor. So bathe and anoint yourself and put on your best clothes and go down to the threshing-floor. But do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
Ruth 4:5
Then Boaz said, ‘On the day you buy the field from Naomi, you must also marry Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to preserve the name of the dead in connection with his inheritance.’
Ruth 4:6
‘I cannot buy it for myself without spoiling my own inheritance,’ the near relative said. ‘You take my right of buying it as a relative, because I cannot do so.’
Ruth 4:8
So when the near relative said to Boaz, ‘Buy it for yourself,’ Boaz drew off the man’s sandal.