And the near kinsman said, I am not able to redeem for myself, that I not mar my own inheritance. You redeem for yourself my right of redemption, for I am not able to redeem.
If your brother has become poor and has sold his property, then comes his redeemer, a near relative to him, and he redeems the thing sold by his brother.
And if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother is refusing to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he has not been willing to perform the duty of my levirate.
And his brother’s wife shall draw near to him before the elders, and shall draw off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So it shall be done to the man who will not build up the house of his brother.
And Naomi said to her daughter-inlaw, Blessed is he of Jehovah who has not forsaken his kindness with the living and with those who died. And Naomi said to her, The man is near of kin to us; he is of our redeemers.
Stay tonight, and it shall be in the morning, if he will redeem you, well; he will redeem. And if he does not delight to redeem you, as Jehovah lives, then I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.