9And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.
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And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. …
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-12)Boaz now sees his way clear, and therefore delays not to perform his promise made to Ruth that he would do the kinsman’s part, but in the gate of the city, before the elders and all the people, publishes a marriage-contract between himself and Ruth the Moabitess, and therewith the purchase of all the estate that belonged to the family of Elimelech. If he had not been (Ruth 2:1) a mighty man of wea…
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