Ruth 4:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁸ Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Therefore, when the kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself, he pulled off his sandal.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ So the near kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thyself. And he drew off his shoe.

Common English Bible

⁸ Then the redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” and he took off his sandal.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And so Boaz said to his kinsman, "Take off your shoe." And immediately he released it from his foot.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ So Booz said to his kinsman: Put off thy shoe. And immediately he took it off from his foot.

Ruth 4:8 Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:9

then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.

Ruth 4:7

Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor: and this was a testimony in Israel.

Ruth 4:9

And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elim´elech's, and all that was Chil´i-on's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Na-o´mi.