Ruth 4:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:9

The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up his brother's house.

Ruth 4:7

Now this in former times was the manner in Israel between kinsmen, that if at any time one yielded his right to another: that the grant might be sure, the man put off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour. This was a testimony of cession of right in Israel.

Ruth 4:9

And he said to the ancients and to all the people: You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and Chelion's, and Mahalon's, of the hand of Noemi.