A person in your country might become very poor. He might be so poor that he must sell his property. So his close relative must come and buy back the property for his relative.
“Maybe a foreigner or visitor among you will become rich. Maybe a person from your own country [436] will become poor, so that he sells himself as a slave to a foreigner living among you or to a member of a foreigner’s family.
You know the grace (kindness) of our Lord Jesus Christ. You know that Christ was rich \{with God\}, but for you he became poor. Christ did this so that you could become rich by his becoming poor.
{Maybe Boaz is the right man.} Boaz is our close relative. [14] You worked with his women servants. Tonight he will be working at the threshing floor. [15]
Then Boaz spoke to the close relative. [26] He said, “Naomi came back from the hill country of Moab. She is selling the land [27] that belonged to our relative Elimelech.